Rob Enderle

With the launch of Leopard we’re all doing our regular “if Apple wins, Microsoft loses” traditional dance, but this time the product and promise are different. With this one we have a mature Bootcamp offering and a number of strong dual OS alternatives that will run with Leopard and Windows, allowing both OSes to reside […]

Well, in the enterprise the votes appear to be in and the winner is – drum roll please – Windows XP SP3. And I can say that before Apple’s Leopard platform has even shipped. For the Apple folks, don’t get overly excited because Windows Vista isn’t exactly cutting through the enterprise market either, and it […]

I’ve been thinking about the EU judgment EU judgment ever since Microsoft lost the appeal, and I’ve concluded that it not only won’t work, it can’t work and, in my opinion, it’s one of the dumbest moves I’ve seen a government make in business. The only thing it will likely do is aggravate a bunch […]

For those that watch Intel and AMD, and use their products in offerings ranging from hand held computers to large enterprise server clusters, it often seems about who has the faster part. But, for some time, we haven’t been all that interested in speed as an absolute – we’ve been more interested in overall system […]

OK, Vista hasn’t exactly been the Windows 95 of operating systems, but this may be both a good and a bad thing. It certainly didn’t have the waves of people lining up to get it when it launched (the iPhone got that wave), but then it also didn’t have the large number of employees trying […]

This was an interesting week, Dell announced a series of desktop Linux advancements at Linux world, Lenovo stepped in to provide desktop Linux as well, Apple refreshed their iMac line to something less advanced than HP’s latest and Microsoft was not only all over LinuxWorld they were actually an honored guest. I’ve been really thinking […]

All of us who have worked for big companies know that executives don’t like bad information and have a tendency to shoot the messenger. Often problems that cripple a company are known, but covered up, for years before the result is so evident it can no longer be covered up. I wrote one of the […]

I’m in the midst of what is a regular reality check with the large OEMs this month, both for me and for them, and four pieces of information stand out. First, there is still little interest in Vista in business; second, there is a credible effort to use Linux on all mainstream corporate desktops but […]

The iPhone as a media event is a wonderful thing but to an IT manager it is Satan Spawned.This is because it is one of those devices and a large number of employees are likely to buy and bring to the enterprise begging, or in the case of executives, demanding support. But we don’t really […]

I often wonder why experienced companies focus so much time and resources on Enterprise sales. I know why inexperienced companies do this but a lot of firms, and I would include Apple in the mix, probably don’t have to. The reason firms like to sell to enterprises is the commission check to the sales rep […]