Drifting Apart
Intel Exec Pings the Market In a recent BusinessWeek article chronicling the state of the Wintel marriage (Microsoft/Windows and Intel) we came across an adroit play run by Intel Executive Vice...
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View ArticleDrifting Apart
Intel Exec Pings the Market In a recent BusinessWeek article chronicling the state of the Wintel marriage (Microsoft/Windows and Intel) we came across an adroit play run by Intel Executive Vice...
View ArticleDumpster Diving America’s Cup Style
Taking a Page From Ellison’s Playbook Back in 2000, someone from the database giant Oracle was caught sifting through the garbage bins of its rival, Microsoft. When asked by excited reporters about...
View ArticleHunting the Virtual Leader
Can Microsoft’s Plays Out-Wit VMware? The annals of tech marketing teach us it’s not necessarily the company with the best product or vision that comes to define a category, but the company that runs...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From Larry Ellison: Lessons in Tech Marketing
This blog appeared in The Huffington Post. Click to leave comments here. When I read the tweets that Larry Ellison had stepped down as Oracle’s CEO, an enduring lyric jumped to mind. I tweeted: The...
View ArticleDrifting Apart
Intel Exec Pings the Market In a recent BusinessWeek article chronicling the state of the Wintel marriage (Microsoft/Windows and Intel) we came across an adroit play run by Intel Executive Vice...
View ArticleDumpster Diving America’s Cup Style
Taking a Page From Ellison’s Playbook Back in 2000, someone from the database giant Oracle was caught sifting through the garbage bins of its rival, Microsoft. When asked by excited reporters about...
View ArticleHunting the Virtual Leader
Can Microsoft’s Plays Out-Wit VMware? The annals of tech marketing teach us it’s not necessarily the company with the best product or vision that comes to define a category, but the company that runs...
View ArticleDrifting Apart
Intel Exec Pings the Market In a recent BusinessWeek article chronicling the state of the Wintel marriage (Microsoft/Windows and Intel) we came across an adroit play run by Intel Executive Vice...
View ArticleDumpster Diving America’s Cup Style
Taking a Page From Ellison’s Playbook Back in 2000, someone from the database giant Oracle was caught sifting through the garbage bins of its rival, Microsoft. When asked by excited reporters about...
View ArticleHunting the Virtual Leader
Can Microsoft’s Plays Out-Wit VMware? The annals of tech marketing teach us it’s not necessarily the company with the best product or vision that comes to define a category, but the company that runs...
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