Technology
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Now Every Company Really Is A…
via Seattle Municipal Archives My stump speech seven or eight years ago included two assertions: 1.) every company is now a media company and 2.) every company is now a software company. Someone recently reminded me of that pitch and while it seems obvious today, it was definitely before its time. The globe-spanning organizational behemoths…
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Open Season: A Short Industrial Drama
Cloud Foundry had a pretty good week with endorsements from Baidu and IBM. Both relationships were developed after I left VMware so what follows is purely speculation on my part. But some companies have a tough time getting over their history and playbooks, so it is easy to imagine how things went down. Warning: this…
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Dino Watch: IBM’s Q2 Results
Image via Flickr Our favorite “technology” company IBM “beat” the number last week and saw its stock pop on Thursday after announcing earnings. Bloomberg cheered the results: “IBM Raises Annual Forecast After Earnings Top Analyst Estimates” International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer-services company, topped estimates with its second-quarter earnings and raised its…