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A Year Ago: Veitch Speaks: My Life In Show Business
News Mr Veitch finds exhibitions in the UK and Europe are a disappointment after the Comdex IT show in Vegas. Where should managers go to discover the big picture? The other week I was at Comdex Fall in Las Vegas, my seventh visit to this eye-popping...
[November 29, 1999, 6:06]
Veitch Speaks: When Slump Comes, Spare IT
News There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and IT spending, said Computacenter chief executive Mike Norris. His words made for a lively quote and were instantly picked up by the media fawning over a British company that had succeeded in...
[November 14, 1998, 5:06]
Veitch Speaks: Let's Stay Together In 1999
News If there is a single word that will define 1999 in IT it will be convergence - and this time it will be more than jargon. Convergence is one of those God-awful words that people who call themselves other God-awful things like futurologists and...
[January 9, 1999, 5:27]
A Year Ago: Veitch Speaks: Sun's Dream Of Jini
News Sun's plan to standardise connections between a range of electronic devices on a universal network is a good idea, but it looks like a long shot, says Martin Veitch You don't have to be an expert on connectivity, Java or the vagaries of look-up...
[January 30, 2000, 6:11]
Veitch Speaks: Sun's Dream Of Jini
News You don't have to be an expert on connectivity, Java or the vagaries of look-up services to realise that Sun's plan to make its Jini technology the peripheral connectivity standard is pretty ambitious.
[January 30, 1999, 7:11]
Veitch Speaks: It's A Free World
News The fuss over Free-PC.com, the site that is giving away PCs with Internet access, proves that nothing in marketing succeeds better than the perception of a bargain. When all the hype has gone quiet, the success of such giveaways will have a very...
[February 27, 1999, 6:23]
Veitch Speaks: Give Big Blue Some Respect
News Just as most football fans will refuse to cheer for Manchester United, you'd need the blade-sharp memory and capacity for storing evidence of a Monica Lewinsky to remember the last time an IT commentator praised IBM.
[September 26, 1998, 8:10]
Veitch Speaks: Return Of The Dinosaurs
News Don't expect Raquel Welch in a skimpy fur bikini, but it's beginning to look like One Million Years BC again. While all those fab startups that we raved about a few years ago take a back seat, the dinosaurs you recall from the 1960s and 1970s are...
[October 17, 1998, 12:19]
Veitch Speaks: The Cheap Chip Cash Cow
News Enough already, as they say in California, where the vast majority of PC chips are made. The lunatic rate at which these things are changing has gone way beyond the comprehension of anybody - even those who work in the industry.
[October 3, 1998, 6:41]
Veitch Speaks: Expect A Net Profit
News I read something the other day that made me laugh. The article kicked off by saying that the bankruptcy of electronic cash vendor Digicash made it "time to assemble the definitive list of underperforming Internet technologies".
[November 21, 1998, 14:26]
Veitch Speaks: Intel Doesn't Own The World
News It is true that Intel architecture is a huge force in enterprise computing and one that is expanding its domain from the desktop through to the data centre. However, it should be noted that Intel is not and never will be the way forward for all of us.
[January 16, 1999, 6:09]
Veitch Speaks: Novell, The Comeback Kid
News Things aren't what they used to be. They never are in this fastest moving of businesses but that said, what an amazing turnaround Novell is making. Novell today looks a more admirable comeback kid than Bill Clinton, but there seemed to be plenty of...
[March 13, 1999, 5:29]
Veitch Speaks: Handhelds Up For Grabs
News For a long time, handheld computers have been the orchids of computing hardware: cool, desirable, another country entirely. In truth though, for many users they've rarely been more than a slightly weightier, much more expensive version of the...
[October 24, 1998, 8:02]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News I recall a sunny Monday morning seven years ago when I visited them in Richmond, Surrey. The company from beautiful Irvine, California was flying. They were that mysterious thing: a reseller channel-based PC company thriving despite Dell and the...
[February 7, 1998, 6:00]
Veitch Speaks: Dell Needs More Enterprise
News Only a fool would doubt Michael Dell's ability to pull rabbits out of hats but even the Texan wizard needs a new trick sometimes. As Dell turned in another routinely superb quarter last week it may seem churlish to cast doubts on the company but...
[February 20, 1999, 5:20]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Against a slick marketing organisation like Iomega, the SuperDisk folks have had cause to be sharp - they haven't. Proof in the computing chestnut that consortiums tend not to run as well as nimble individual companies.
[August 23, 1997, 8:00]
Martin Veitch: IT's Like This...
News Not since Caligula decided to make his horse a senator has there been such an ill-advised decision as that of the Labour Party to play the we're old hands at technology role'. Even Tony Blair isn't perfect and this government's understanding of...
[October 2, 1998, 17:10]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Comdex Analysis
News That's not to say that Comdex Fall '97 was disappointing, just a reflection that most visitors are long gone by the end of Friday. Many representatives of national daily newspapers leave Monday night with potted opinion pieces that cover only the...
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Who knows the truth but it's certainly the case that Digital boss Bob Palmer is one mean hombre and knows the value of a dollar. I think he's going to get rid but there may be more suitors than Intel.
[October 11, 1997, 8:00]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Up six o'clock for a five-mile run. Got to put in the hours if I'm going to beat last year's London Marathon time and at least it makes the breakfast taste good. Feel a bit rough but it gets rid of the last of the jet lag after flying back from...
[November 29, 1997, 7:00]
