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"Microsoft is doubling back to what made it the dominant company in operating systems," Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "If it makes the best products, it will be the company that people choose." ...

"Microsoft is doubling back to what made it the dominant company in operating systems," Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "If it makes the best products, it will be the company that people choose." ...

Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that companies that go the white-box route cannot usually be identified by industry, although there are exceptions: Many manufacturing and food companies buy no-name computers In general, however, the background of the IT...

"These deals give a company instant access to technology," Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, noting that to develop such technology in-house would require far more time and money. "For a company with cash or attractive stock, the deals can be done at very little cost and really strengthen a product line overnight."

"What is interesting is that the WebStation is basically a diskless workstation that uses a CD instead of a remote server for the OS image and applications," Rob Enderle, a research fellow at Forrester, told TechNewsWorld. ...

"They've made it clear they intend to do whatever it takes to improve their security profile," Rob Enderle, another Forrester analyst, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's not going to be an overnight process, though." ...

Forrester analyst Rob Enderle said the future looks relatively bright for the chipmaker. Executives at Intel are sharpening their focus "and seem to be getting their arms around their marketing problems," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Currently, they are out-executing their competitors and have enough of a lead to make it unlikely they will lose the lead within five years."

But although Microsoft generally does not seek a leadership role on such controversial issues -- given that the company is not on the best terms with many other companies in the industry -- its decisions do resonate because of its sheer size and high profile, said Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle said...

On the other hand, Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft and HP are not joined at the hip. In fact, their relationship more closely resembles a roommate arrangement than a marriage "There are things they like about each other, things that annoy...

"The printer segment was traditionally one that HP didn't have to worrytoo much about," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times."They've always had competition, but the threat from a company that canalso supply customers with all their other computing needs is a new wrinkle."

Forrester analyst Rob Enderle said Microsoft appears to be making extra efforts to put as many outstanding legal matters to rest as possible "Even if the money and time they spend fighting doesn't turn up in its quarterly results, it still is hanging over them," Enderle told t...

The VeriSign alliance is designed to give Microsoft a well-respected security ally, Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, a likely acknowledgment that Microsoft needs assistance to recover its security reputation. "Microsoft is the biggest and its ...

"Anytime they can get something off the table for relatively short money, they're probably going to grab it," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, citing earlier settlement agreements that ended class-action consumer suits. "The fact that this deal has some long-range upside for the company only makes it more appealing."

"They're hitting or even surpassing a lot of the targets," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The enterprise business has to remain a concern, however, since that was what was driving the merger in many people's eyes." The company's enterprise sales unit...

Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that there have always been enterprises that have sought to resist Microsoft, but most find few alternatives that are as well developed as the software giant's products "The reason they got to be the biggest in the first ...

"They didn't need this right now," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It undermines the progress they're telling customers and partners they've been making." ...

Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that a desire to score more enterprise customer wins was one reason why HP and Compaq combined forces after a bitter proxy and legal battle. So far, though, while the combined company has scored dozens of outsou...

Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle said he believes Sun's shares have reached levels at which a takeover is a distinct possibility, since the company's technology is still highly regarded in the industry. He speculated that only three firms, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell, would be in a financial position to make such a move. Sun's market cap is about $11.8 billion.

"Dell has clearly been the biggest beneficiary of this merger," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. Still, he added, the merged HP appears to be doing better than expected, with recent service contract wins a clear outgrowth of the two companies' union. ...

Patience might be a virtue in other ways, too. Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that even though the core of Windows Server 2003 has been better tested than previous Microsoft operating systems, companies would do well to wait until the first service pack is released. By doing so, IT decision makers will appear to be prudent buyers...