Rob Enderle

Google, like most companies since the 1970s, has focused on grades as one of the key requirements for hiring. As a result, it probably not only lost out on good people, but ended up with a lot of folks who were not the best the company could get for a given job. Google recently announced […]

I just finished watching the funeral for our 38th President Gerald Ford and was struck by how often those eulogizing him used the word “trust.” Here was a guy who never sought the office of the presidency and yet was brought in time and again because he was the most trustworthy person anyone seemed to […]

A few years back I wrote my very first column for an online publication called Linux Pipeline on choosing software wisely. The column was to begin a series of events that changed my life because I used, as an example, a CIO who had chosen Linux for the wrong reasons. Now, to be clear, Linux […]

In the war between Microsoft and those that support Linux, there have been many phases. Most of this war, like most wars, has been concealed by the “fog of war” and propaganda from both camps. Initially, both sides seemed more interested in positioning than in true discourse, and if Microsoft used undue pressure (often positioned […]

We’ve been hearing a lot about the complaints from the security firms with regard to Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. While on the surface it looks like Microsoft is attacking its longtime partners, this is actually the result of nearly a decade of Microsoft being attacked by them and now responding to the threat. To […]

If the stars align properly in a few days Microsoft will be releasing their next operating system to manufacturing, and it will both signal the end of one era and the beginning of another. This is really the end of the product lines that began with Windows 95 and ended with Windows XP. It represents […]

There is nothing more indicative of change than the recently announced partnership between Novell and Microsoft.Unlike the Sun partnership, which seemed to be more about Sun getting money from Microsoft than anything truly material, this one has teeth and addresses the critical needs of both companies and the customers who use their products. It easily […]