Dell buying Quest Software: It’s the Practitioner, Stupid
When I heard about the mooted management buy out at Quest Software recently I was fairly surprised given I had long assumed Quest was already an acquisition target for a major tech vendor. Quest is...
View ArticleWOW: Marissa Mayer takes over as CEO of Yahoo
Why leave Google for a CEO position at Yahoo? the NY Times story offers a pretty obvious clue: “After years of heading-up its search business, Google’s most profitable unit, Ms. Mayer became vice...
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EMC Set to Geek Out, VMware To Refocus on the Franchise not the Future. All...
Earlier this week I was with Alcatel Lucent in Naperville, Illinois when a tweet came in that Paul Maritz, VMware’s CEO, had been dismissed from his post. I would have thought the idea was absurd,...
View ArticleThe End of Software: Microsoft Posts a Loss for the First Time ever
At RedMonk we have been doing a fair bit of work lately trying to work out where the industry is heading, as the way we use and value code changes. For example – Red Hat is the defacto standard for...
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Basho Comes to Shoreditch, A Tech City RedMonk story
If you have been following me for a while you know I am obsessive about Shoreditch. I love working here. So much in fact that I have invested in Shoreditch Works, the coworking space, and its...
View ArticleRetooling for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Serena
Serena Software has been around a long time: it cut its teeth in mainframe software development with products like ChangeMan, sold into large, traditional enterprise customers with large, traditional...
View ArticleThe Lesson of RBS: Invest in legacy, Invest in the mainframe
Successful, profitable businesses run largely on legacy production systems. Many of these systems are mainframe-based. Take the legacy away and any business based on transactions will suddenly...
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