Rob Enderle

For several days I’ve been at the annual Intel analysts’ event held on Intel’s campus in Silicon Valley. Intel is clearly upbeat about their financial and market performance and the defensiveness that has been common in prior events is nowhere to be found here. These guys are feeling their oats and there is an undercurrent […]

Although I’m writing this before the launch, the Apple tablet is likely the biggest bet the company has made in its existence.It anticipates a future that is more appliance-centric in concept than the Mac, or any PC, has ever embraced. And is likely, on paper, vastly closer to what people wanted. It also showcases how […]

CES was back this year with a vengeance. Typically IT doesn’t care much about CES, but this year probably should be different: What CES launched will likely be coming in your front door in 12-18 months. Much like it was in the ‘80s when, if you were watching, you could see the beginning of the […]

It is interesting that we tend to go through cycles. We started off with big centralized computers and relatively dumb terminals. Now with the rapid growth in Smartphones, the expected success of Smartbooks and Smart-Tablets (like the rumored iSlate), and the proliferation of devices like plug computers we appear to be facing a future that […]

For all practical purposes Steve Jobs deserved Fortune magazine’s CEO of the Decade award. He took a company that was once within months of going under and he turned it into a gleaming star in both the consumer electronics and technology markets. But he did so by killing all philanthropic activity, by implementing the most […]

Google is an incredibly successful company but its revenue comes from advertising, not from selling products.Free can be very attractive to enterprises and government but if the cost of “free” is the privacy of employees, most will likely find the cost exceeds the value of the offering. Instead, for Google to be successful in the […]

Last week I was at an EMC analyst event and got an update on their unique focus on customer loyalty.One of the things their massive analysis effort has recently showcased was that if you improve customer loyalty by 1% your market share will subsequently increase by 2%.This would seem to be a sure way to […]

Dan Lyons recently posted an opinion piece on why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates, titled “The Lost Decade.” Steve Ballmer is under a microscope at the moment, so let’s talk about why this is, and whether the position that Lyons and others are taking is reasonable. I’ve worked with and for a number of […]

This is a big change from Windows Vista where basically every company said, “We aren’t deploying and you can’t make us!” Laura DiDio over at ITIC partnered with Sunbelt Software to survey 1,600 people to find out what companies were really planning. The results she has captured would suggest an adoption wave for Windows 7 […]

Ever since Cisco moved to buy buy video conferencing firm Tandberg last week I’ve been thinking about this technology area. This was one of the first technologies I covered as an analyst back in the 1980s and, back then, I had access to the massive research budgets of IBM and AT&T to look at why […]