Segmenting techies

You always knew techies were different. . . Market segmentation is a black art. Some people believe that markets can be finely segmented in ways that are meaningful over time. Perhaps because I spend a lot of time marketing leading edge stuff I believe that segments...

Intel’s best and worst

Over on ZDnet Monday I posted RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow. I wrote about Intel’s ill-fated attempt to get Fully Buffered DIMMs accepted as the memory standard for servers and workstations. I got started on the topic because I’m thinking of buying...

What is VMware worth?

From the whatever-people-will-pay department My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to a Barrons blog which summarizes the thinking of several analysts on the issue of VMware’s worth. Let a thousand flowers bloom There is some...