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"This is really bad timing," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is a platform that does use the new product, and it could have had something to do with the overall deployment of the new technology." Windows Server 20...

With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "The product has been designed to han...

The suit likely won't impact Microsoft much except, perhaps, as a lesson, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "I think this showcases expectations that were missed at the front end with Vista," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Their big problem is getting ...

Last week, HP turned in a financial report that seemed to provide a strong counterpoint to the view that the world was heading into a recession, or at least that tech was going to be sacrificed to that recession ...

While regulatory pressure drove some of the detailed moves, the changes are just the visible part of "one of the biggest fundamental changes in Microsoft since it became a major player," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told LinuxInsider "This truly is the early fac...

Last week continued the excitement with Yahoo as it worked to get Microsoft to increase its offer by trying out alternatives but not really finding any good ones ...

The latest changes are a reflection of larger trends within Microsoft, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This is happening at an unprecedented rate across the company," he said, due to "the combination of a now aggressive acquisition strate...

"Going up to $40 will be tough," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Microsoft's offer was already 60 percent higher than Yahoo's trading price, so that will be really hard for Microsoft to justify." More likely, End...

I've had a little time to think about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger, why this makes sense and what could go wrong. This thing actually should be one of the easiest mergers of its type, and there is actually a strange amount of affinity, often taken for granted, between these two firms that most seem to not know about. In addition, I'm amazed at how many people are being outspoken on how bad the Macbook Air is, and I think it is time to re-look at just what a flagship product is supposed to be and reset expectations a little bit. Folks, once you understand what this product is intended to do, it really isn't that bad...

This last week I spent some quality time at HP, and I'm frankly amazed at what the PC team has been able to accomplish in terms of overcoming what I've termed the "Big Company Disease." ...

Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week...

"Clearly they're in good financial shape," Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. While Microsoft had been seen as a mature, safe company while other tech firms were growing much faster, circumstances may help change that perception. "Over the last few years, much of their revenue has been almost institutionalized because it's built on large-scale enterprise agreements. On one hand, that means it doesn't change that much, but on the other hand, it means it may be relatively bulletproof when economic conditions change...

"Right now there is a huge focus on saving energy, and the EPEAT validation helps differentiate products that do a better job of that," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It is a way for the buyer to make sure they are getting something that meets a set of agreed upon green standards."

I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop ...

The move better positions Sun to promote the open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, which is used to run dynamic Web sites, to those larger corporations that are sometimes reticent to use free software, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group. However, the purchase won't immediately create an open source product that soothes corporate concerns. In fact, Enderle said, it may take some time before Sun sees the benefit from this deal...

Still, whether Intel -- long considered a bellwether because its chips are a foundational component in everything from servers and PCs to consumer gadgets -- provided any evidence of a recession is hard to read from the results, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. Earlier in the week, IBM buoyed hopes for a quick recovery with a strong quarterly report and an upbeat outlook...

The price cuts might have made a difference if Toshiba had made them during the holidays, but now they're too little, too late, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Price cuts won't do it now," Enderle said. "If they had been...

CES is an incredible show, but I was both sad and happy to see the final keynote Bill Gates gave at CES, both because I like Bill and probably won't see him personally again, and because he is moving to something that he really wants to do, I'm happy for him. I also think this CES signals a major change for Microsoft that is part positive and part negative...

"Both Google and Microsoft have the resources to buy into markets and flesh out offerings or correct initiatives that aren't particularly competitive," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "In this case, Fast had good penetration in enterprise class companies but was struggling with the complexity of their offering and was being structured for a sale...

There are two mistakes a vendor can make that it may not be able to recover from. One is to build too many products, which stay in inventory and prevent future sales; and the other is to have too few products and lose out of sales as a result ...