'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
News Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, has labelled pirated software as a "tougher competitor" to his company than open-source software. Gates told a media briefing in Sydney this morning: "You know what my toughest...
[June 28, 2004, 10:15]
Fibre Channel Competitor Wins Approval
News The major competitor for iSCSI is the existing Fibre Channel protocol, which offers high performance and is well-established in the marketplace, but requires separate networks. A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that...
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
Talkback How peculiar. Does Gates not realise he would never have reached the 90% or so penetration he's got without pirates?
[June 28, 2004, 10:25]
'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
Talkback I'm sure he realises this. However, now he GOT the 90%, he doesn't need the pirates any more. So : time to say goodbye.
[June 28, 2004, 13:59]
'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
Talkback His comments on being a systems integrator for ones self and realising that components are missing is dangerous ground. I have had to install 4 Windows 2000 boxes, 1 XP box and 3 SuSE boxes in the last 2 weeks.
[June 29, 2004, 9:04]
Ericsson Plus Marconi Equals Powerful European Competitor
Talkback /quote Marconi was the number-two world player in optical transmission (its products were made by Ericsson for years).endquote Perhaps you need to rethink that statement a little. Marconi's optical transmission products are RESOLD by Ericsson, not...
[October 27, 2005, 9:32]
'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
Talkback He knows pirating software has been his best ally. I remember the days when even smaller companies would get all of MS offering on CDs, ready to install. Even in those days, some companies where already selling enterprise software with licenses...
[June 29, 2004, 10:57]
Rumours Of A Intel/AMD Competitor
Blog Comment The investment would have to be Huge i dont think we will see a full scale attack on there market share but maybe a little dabble might produce some interesting results especially for gamers.
[January 4, 2007, 15:46]
Rumours Of A Intel/AMD Competitor
Blog Comment I thought that when Nvidia brought out it's own motherboard chipset. I never thought it would compete with the likes of VIA but it seems to be here to stay. Admittedly the processor market is a bit more cut-throat but if it did succeed we could see...
[January 4, 2007, 21:26]
'Windows' Toughest Competitor Is Pirates' - Gates
Talkback Spot the IP threat: MS have been busy applying for patents for everything butjustified it by saying they don't pursue them, but surely the statement contains an MS threat for the future.
[June 30, 2004, 9:03]
Rumours Of A Intel/AMD Competitor
Blog Comment They certainly would end up with a big advantage i will be watching with interest.
[January 5, 2007, 7:53]
Microsoft Silverlight Open-source Competitor Released
News The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe...
[May 16, 2008, 13:00]
Business Planning For New Entrants: Building A Better Competitor
White Papers In order to be successful in today’s competitive market, new entrants must carefully develop and execute focused business plans that differentiate them from the competition, facilitate cost-effective and flexible infrastructure, leverage critical...
[December 2, 2003, 23:00]
Suse's Geck Joins Exchange Competitor
News Open-Xchange, an open source software company angling to cut into the Microsoft Exchange market, announced two new top executives on Monday. Gerald Labie, who had been chief executive of CXO Systems and chief operating officer of Novadigm, now is...
[April 2, 2007, 10:10]
Open-source MP3 Competitor Goes Mobile With Zaurus
News The Ogg Vorbis project to create a fully open, licence-free alternative to the MP3 format got a boost on Thursday with the release of the first Ogg player for a handheld device. A firm called TheKompany, which makes Linux desktop tools and...
[April 12, 2002, 17:08]
Ericsson Plus Marconi Equals Powerful European Competitor
News All in all, we believe the merger of the two companies will create a more powerful European competitor. Marconi shareholders will receive £2.50-3.00 per share in cash in the first three months of 2006, close to the price the shares were trading at...
[October 25, 2005, 14:35]
Siebel Competitor Offers Free Licences
News Scottish customer relationship management company Graham Technology has announced an aggressive marketing campaign to target Siebel's customers and convert them to using its own GT-X 'toolkit' approach to CRM.
[May 17, 2002, 15:04]
Mainsoft Cuts Cost, Complexity And Beats Competitor In Side-by-Side Comparison
White Papers Mainsoft helped Mentor Graphics save time and money. Mentor Graphics transitioned from a development environment that produced separate code streams for UNIX and Windows platforms, to a more efficient, cost-effective, single Windows source code...
[May 15, 2007, 0:00]
Not Much Of A Competitor
Talkback the whole appeal of these mini PCs is price, they were supposed to appeal to budget users. HP's offering, if you include VAT, works out £350, what's the appeal when you can get a fully featured laptop, with Windows Vista for £300?
[April 9, 2008, 10:32]
Palm Competitor - Or Is It A Partner?
News Palm Computing is likely to give Handspring, which is expected to debut a new Palm OS-based handheld next week, a little breathing room in the marketplace. But not too much. As previously reported, start-up Handspring on Tuesday will announce Visor...
[September 10, 1999, 9:40]

