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The Decline and Fall of Mozilla – Continued
Another indicator of Mozilla’s continued slide (previous complaints here and here): IBM announces they are standardizing on Firefox. The party is surely over. The only news here is why didn’t this happen years ago. My prescription remains Microzilla.
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PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them. In some cases, the wheels come off…
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Regulating the Land that Moore’s Law Forgot
And so we come full circle: “IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market”. Out of the limelight, IBM has spent significant time and money lobbying various governments to hobble competitors in the last fifteen years, all the while maintaining the biggest monopoly in technology with the mainframe. Now the antitrust spotlight returns to…