Novell takes potshot at Microsoft kettle
Leader Novell owes much of its existence to the one-time success of its Netware network operating system -- software that was ripe for commoditisation; the company is now finding that those customers who didn't desert to Microsoft are opting for Linux...
[September 15, 2004, 13:40]
Consumer tech tipped to reshape enterprise IT
News Overall, commoditisation and consumerisation are about the increasing affordability of technology, the changes in societal behaviour that come about because of this and the impact those changes have on an enterprise in terms of how it meets the...
[May 16, 2006, 15:25]
Understanding software as a commodity
Talkback There are three preconditions of software commoditisation for personal computers. What a user needs to do is only to buy the software-card, and then plug it into one of his/her computer's memory card slots.
[July 23, 2004, 22:09]
CRM: The enterprise is dead - long live the SME
News The twin pressures of consolidation and commoditisation are shaping the industry -- forcing enterprise software providers to look for new opportunities through changing focus or acquisitions. Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft says a lot about the...
[December 17, 2004, 14:50]
Virtualisation will power utility computing
News But Virtualization Engine shouldn't be discounted as unimportant or a mere exercise in lumping technology together: "Part of this is social engineering -- changing the expectation of what's got to be bundled together and starting the...
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60bn' out of the industry
News The solution, according to the Novell boss, will come through the movement to open source, which will force the further commoditisation of client and server operating systems -- allowing companies to spend more on development further up the...
[September 13, 2004, 17:00]
Computers: Just another commodity?
News Now, we're going to be seeing the commoditisation of almost everything, including software and services. We saw, in the 1990s, the commoditisation of hardware. Most people are aware Apple spent over $100m developing Newton, but Newton was a chance...
[October 3, 2003, 10:54]
Open source threatens Java servers
News It's a case of commoditisation and consolidation," IDC analyst Michele Rosen said. He sees a need for server software whose main task is presenting database information to a variety of handheld devices, as well as for more high-end applications to...
[February 14, 2003, 14:04]
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News The commoditisation of the operating system is key for reducing business' costs, he said, with companies differentiating themselves by the services built upon the operating system. Open-source software is picking up steam in European businesses...
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
Smartphone standards battle heats up
News The world of smartphones is condensing around fewer platforms, raising the spectre of PC-style commoditisation in the wireless world, according to an analyst report. Commoditisation, which happened in the PC market when Windows and Intel became...
[July 22, 2003, 9:53]
Novell: The comeback kid
News He claims open source is a "rising waterline" -- meaning software commoditisation, evidenced by cheaper open-source operating systems, will spread up the stack of applications to include database products and alike This movement is forcing...
[March 24, 2004, 12:15]
Novell catches Salmon to beef up services
News In a recent interview, Novell's chief executive Jack Messman described Linux as a "rising waterline" -- meaning that the commoditisation of software, and the rise of cheaper open-source operating systems, will spread up the stack of applications...
[July 22, 2004, 17:50]
Open source 'will solve RFID's image problem'
News Large vendors, such as Microsoft, are keen that their platform becomes the de-facto software standard for RFID but Moran claimed that greater use of open source was much more likely to lead to the commoditisation and transparency needed to make...
[November 7, 2005, 17:10]
Dell not switching on utility computing
News The enterprise itself is transitioning toward standardisation and commoditisation of products and services," Marengi said, adding that chief information officers are primarily asking their companies to "bring costs down".
[May 29, 2003, 7:41]
IDC finds optimism in 2004's crystal ball
News The server market will see commoditisation. In 2004, x86 servers will account for more revenue overall, and Linux will account for 10 percent of the servers sold in the United States. Sun Microsystems in particular will have to devise a way to...
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
Borland segues from coding to lifecycle management
News Borland also admitted that commoditisation of developer tools and the availability of open source IDEs like Eclipse had "eroded" the market for such products. Borland has continued its metamorphosis into an "end-to-end code management" company with...
[February 8, 2006, 18:40]
Donated PCs become African multimedia centres
News But this being Africa - where, despite the commoditisation of PCs in the West, price is still an issue — the answer is to crack open the monitor and attach a TV card to create a cheap and reliable TV.
[September 14, 2007, 16:48]
Linux.conf.au: Sysadmin role changing via the cloud
News The commoditisation of email services, instant messaging and chat systems, and even document storage and backups — all increasingly available online via the cloud — meant the nature of sysadmin work was changing, Limoncelli said in his keynote...
[January 27, 2009, 8:49]
The end of corporate computing?
News Information technology is undergoing an inexorable shift from being an asset that companies own - in the form of computers, software and myriad related components - to being a service that they purchase from utility providers," Carr argues.
[May 6, 2005, 9:40]
