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Red Hat opens office in China
News James Governor, an analyst from Red Monk, said that it will be essential for Red Hat to do this project in collaboration with local businesses as the government has a strict policy on who can sell software in China.
[November 11, 2004, 12:00]
CA talks the open source talk
News James Governor, principal analyst at Red Monk, claims CA's decision to open source Ingres is actually about the company trying to hang on to its existing customer base. Despite these efforts, Red Monk's Governor says CA has not yet won the hearts...
[February 4, 2005, 15:15]
Mandrakelinux 10.1 focuses on mobility
News James Governor, an analyst from Red Monk, told ZDNet UK that Mandrakesoft is not the only Linux distribution offering mobility features, but this is an important feature for users. Mandrakesoft is a relative newcomer to the Linux marketplace -- it...
[October 29, 2004, 17:49]
Compliance legislation 'making fraud easier'
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said: "Any company which simply stores everything is creating problems for themselves further down the line. As the anomalies and fraud issues are corrected the indicators of problems will be moved from red to...
[March 8, 2005, 11:25]
SugarCRM to launch on-demand offering
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said that SugarCRM is likely to shake up the industry through forcing other companies to cut costs and be more innovative. SugarCRM has a similar business model to Red Hat.
[November 4, 2004, 8:13]
IBM delivers an open desktop
News We were getting anxious enterprise inquiries back in 1997, asking about IBM support for the Lotus stack," said James Governor of analysts Red Monk. It incorporates a range of applications, some from IBM's Lotus family, and runs on the two major...
[February 12, 2007, 15:39]
Mozilla could form base of a Google browser
News James Governor, a principal analyst at Red Monk, said that he would be surprised if Google was not working on browser technologies. Rumours flew around the Web on Tuesday about Google's potential plans to release a Web browser.
[September 21, 2004, 18:15]
Google's business Apps sparks debate
News James Governor, of analysts Red Monk, said that the current Google approach was to produce applications that were "Good enough. With the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, the online search giant hopes to cash in on the market for-on demand...
[August 30, 2006, 12:15]
JavaOne: What Sun didn’t say…
Blog The invites came in from all angles, dinner with AMD, chin-wagging with Livescribe Inc.about the pre-release of its Platform SDK 1.0 for mobile computing, beers with Red Monk’s effusive experts - I hardly managed one of them.
[June 10, 2009, 1:16]
Two million Thunderbirds are go
News James Governor, an analyst from Red Monk, said that although Thunderbird will benefit from the attention around Firefox, both still have a long way to go before they achieve mass market status. The open source email application Thunderbird 1.0 has...
[January 11, 2005, 16:25]
Firefox passes five million download mark
News James Governor, an analyst at Red Monk, said that it is not just Web users that are interested in Firefox.software vendors are also showing an interest. Firefox browser passed the 5 million download mark on Monday, beating all previous records of a...
[October 18, 2004, 13:30]
Lycoris 1.4 integrates Windows apps support
News James Governer, a software analyst at Red Monk, said he thinks that packaging Lycoris with CodeWeaver is a big step forward, but that the release is less likely to appeal to Linux fans as it is less flexible than other Linux distributions.
[August 20, 2004, 10:20]
NetSuite's CRM switchers are sign of maturing market
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said this switching between on-demand players — rather than reverting to previous on-premise packaged software alternatives — indicates on-demand businesses have overcome their most major hurdle: convincing...
[July 25, 2006, 17:30]
Adobe launches rich web-development tools
News James Governor, principal analyst at Red Monk, said it is one thing to talk about cross-platform applications, but quite another to make it happen. Adobe's attempts to push interest in rich internet applications received a boost with the official...
[February 25, 2008, 11:03]
Microsoft walks the patent tightrope
News The situation is indicative of a struggle faced by Microsoft and other companies, said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst for research firm Red Monk. To patent or not to patent, that is the question for Microsoft.
[February 4, 2004, 9:00]
Oracle to lower multi-core pricing?
News James Governor, principal analyst with consultancy Red Monk, believes that changes in pricing for multi-core chips will be part of the overall trend to reduce costs and simplify licensing. Oracle looks set to announce changes to its pricing...
[July 14, 2005, 18:20]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
News James Governor, an analyst from Red Monk, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the deal comes at a good time for Microsoft, given the OGC's recent statement. Microsoft has won a nine-year contract, worth an estimated £500m, to put its software on 900...
[November 3, 2004, 11:08]
Is Firefox still gaining on IE?
News James Governor, of analysts Red Monk, said he was not surprised to see figures suggesting that Firefox's fast growth in market share was beginning to slow a little as Microsoft returned to growth. Mozilla's Firefox increased its share of the...
[October 12, 2006, 16:35]
Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story
News Indeed, Torvalds should be congratulated for trying -- even if it is in vain -- to dismiss the media image of a "self-effacing monk". He uses the Red Hat IPO, when he realised that he was actually worth something financially, as an example.
[April 10, 2001, 7:40]
Trustworthy Computing: Two years on
News Blaster is certainly an indictment, to some extent," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at research firm Red Monk. Two years after chairman Bill Gates called on Microsoft to redouble its efforts to secure its software, the company is beginning to...
[January 16, 2004, 9:40]
