
I have been asked for perspectives on the EU investigating IBM for mainframe malfeasance. Other than saying how nice it is to see these two fine organizations keeping each other busy, I really don’t have much new to say beyond our last installment on this topic 18 months ago. The glacial pace is probably fine…

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.
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…