Posted on September 30th, 2008 by tom groenfeldt
In the works for two and a half years, according to one person on the team, Microsoft has brought out a new version of HPC with the familiar Windows front end, so Super Power (Kryptonite not included in the base price) is not only available but usable. The company wheeled out some impressive executives for [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by tom groenfeldt
Hauser’s experience in financial services goes back to the days when Microsoft was pushing Windows NT as an enterprise banking solution. It did better in the branches. Starting in 1997 she was responsible for winning and deploying retail bank branch platforms on Windows NT and establishing Microsoft as a key partner in financial services, said [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by tom groenfeldt
Back in September 2004 when VMWare launched in one of the market’s hottest IPOs since the tech crash, I asked how the company could achieve such high values in a market where Microsoft looked fully capable of launching its own products, especially after it had acquired Softricity. Last week VMWare dumped Diane Green, the company’s [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by tom groenfeldt
Fifty-nine percent of tier-one banks are implementing virtualisation in IT, according to KRC Research in a report commissioned by Microsoft. Curious that Microsoft sponsored such a report – industry experts have long thought the company had a very limited interest in virtualisation because it would reduce the number of Windows licenses an enterprise needs. Microsoft [...]
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