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Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said it's still too early to tell whether the "death of software" mantra being chanted by Salesforce.com and others will prove correct -- that is whether the Internet will replace packaged software "It's too early to call it," Enderle said. Wh...

"Mergers typically don't go well, and this one has all the earmarks of major problems because of integration and cultural issues," Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told CRM Buyer. "PeopleSoft was a customer acquisition ... simple and elegant. This is grafting a third-party product and existing organization and culture into a mature company with two competing lines. These typically do not go well at all."

As we watch the disaster relief effort play out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina we seem to be falling into the same old pattern of focusing on finding the right scapegoat rather than trying to make sure we can deal with similar future problems. Even after 9-11, the tsunami, and a variety of other disasters, we seem no more capable of effectively dealing with the critical aspects of such scenarios than we were a decade ago. In fact, we were probably in better shape to deal with such problems in the 1940s...

Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld that publishing APIs was a necessary move for Microsoft, which is now solidly focused on Google "When you drag Google executives into court as they with this latest Kai-Fu Lee acquisition it refocuses you on your c...

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle told The E-Commerce Times that PalmSource was likely to take a body blow when Palm announced support for the Microsoft Mobile 5 platform, which is expected to happen shortly "If this happens, it would have resulted in a hard hit that PalmSourc...

The effort to clear away long-dangling legal cases is as much about public relations and focus as about eliminating potential liabilities, said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle "Microsoft recognizes that its better off in the long run if it can focus on competing an...

Except for those of us who build our own desktop computers, laptops have become the product that increasingly defines our personalities and which one we choose says more and more about who we are. Until recently our choices were defined by vendors: Apple if you favored high design, IBM if you liked reliability and unique features like secret keyboard light, Dell if you were driven by price and Sony if small was your thing...

"Any merger, particularly in technology, lives and dies based on execution," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times The plan behind the merger -- to have enterprises buy servers and storage devices that work together from a single vendor -- makes...

In a series of columns this month, we started out by talking about the future of desktop computers, moved to laptops, and we'll conclude by talking about the future of convergence, or the melding of the PC and consumer electronics (CE) industries into what is hoped will be a compelling set of products for the home ...

Enderle Group senior analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld that landing KT is a "big deal" for Siemens in light of the fact that Korea is leading the world in broadband deployment "About 80 percent of Korea's population is covered by broadband -- and theirs is real broadband ...

This month we are looking at the future -- and last week we spoke of the changes that are going on in desktop computers. I pointed out that one of the big problems with every single one of the available desktop concepts is the lack of a mobile solution ...

"TV is moving to the Web in a major way," Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "Specialized programming, movie previews and news programs are finding new audiences who want to watch. Thanks to broadband and an audience shift away from TV to the Web, advertising resources are following the users."

We covered software alternatives in last week's column, so now it is time to look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years, and the players driving those changes ...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld that the royalty program is one means by which Microsoft hopes to recuperate themoney it is investing in the expensive Xbox 360. But will the gamers go for it? "Gamers haven't shown a lot of affinity for this kind ...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle noted that Cisco has a history of making strategic purchases that give it access to technology that would take longer to build in-house. However, most of those earlier acquisitions are targeted, niche buys with smaller price tags "Ci...

Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble ...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld the paring down and prioritization that has precluded some features and enhancements is not limited to the Explorer browser "This is cutting across the entire Windows Vista launch," he said, referring to the...

There is no doubting the importance of Windows Vista, formerly known as "Longhorn" and the successor to Windows 95 through XP, as it forms the foundation for Microsoft's future fortunes just as its predecessor did for the company in years past. Vista will be Microsoft's strongest response to competitive pressure from platforms like Linux and the Mac OS...

According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86 server processor market grew 51 percent in the second quarter, from 7.4 percent to 11.2 percent. Intel remains the dominant market leader with 88 percent share, but Rob Enderle, principal analyst for The Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld that Intel has reason to be concerned...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld that Cisco was created via an acquisition and continues to build out its portfolio of products with the same strategy Indeed, Cisco snapped up Voice over Internet Protocol company KiSS Technology last week. Previou...