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Ellison's comments Tuesday were just more of the same, Laura Didio, a Yankee Group research fellow, told LinuxInsider. The Oracle chief had done much the same thing last April when he announced his company would develop its own open source operating system, she noted "He is ba...

"This is just the latest in a series of visits to developing countries for Gates over the past ten years to actively promote technology and healthcare," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld "Technology can be a great leveler, providing a way out o...

"Sun has suffered quiet a bit at the hands of Red Hat and Novell," Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider. "They have fallen on some tough times, but they still have great products." The fact that Sun hired someone from the "edgiest" of the open source outfi...

Thin-client solutions are installed in about 20 percent of businesses, according to research cited by Laura Didio, research fellow at Yankee Group. Within those businesses, it is about 20 percent of the business of enterprise-sized accounts "It allows the customer to make bett...

"Microsoft doesn't want to slam IT managers," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. That is one of the reasons the company moved from weekly patches to monthly patches a few years ago, she noted. "They don't want IT managers to be overwhelmed." In ...

The inclusion of gadgets is a new trend and it will be a must-have, Laura Didio, research fellow at Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld In its ongoing fight with Microsoft and other competitors, Google has definitely won the day with this deal, said Didio, adding the partnership ...

"I think the EU is on a witch hunt," Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm aware that Microsoft is not everybody's favorite company, but in this instance, I think the EU has stacked the deck against it. They're being incredibly implacable and unyielding."

"Today, from a technical perspective, Google Apps does not represent a huge threat to Microsoft," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld. "It still needs a lot of window dressing around the applications -- service and support, integration, interoperability, etc. But in two to three years from now? Yes, it could well be. It's going to make Microsoft have to run harder and provide more value."

It is typical for large third-party vendors to make their software forward-compatible for new versions of an operating system. For something like QuickBooks, that is popular during tax time, one would think they would support Vista, Laura Didio, a Yankee Group research fellow, told TechNewsWorld...

The software giant has also answered some critics with the launch, according to Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group. The company has received some serious industry support for Windows Mobile 6, with handset manufacturers Toshiba and LG Electronics announcing new plans to offer phones based on the platform...

"That really depends if the hardware is two years old or newer," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld "The price of hardware has declined so rapidly over the past several years that we are now paying half the price for a PC or a laptop and getting ...

The improvements to the operating system are impressive, said Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, and will likely appeal to a wide spectrum of early adopters -- from gamers to retirees to small businesses looking to ramp up performance capabilities "Microsoft has ma...

The Intel and Sun collaboration is a matter of pure pragmatism and a recognition that this is a buyer's market, Laura Didio, research fellow at Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. Since the dot-com bust, Sun's business model has seen significant erosion, losing a sizeable chunk of the company's market share in Solaris and the SPARC system to RedHat, Linux and open source...

Many of the Microsoft competitors who helped start the EU antitrust action more than seven years ago have since settled with Microsoft, but that has not made regulators there any less aggressive in dealing with the company, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times...

Like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and AMD, Intel has aligned with developing Web 2.0 application companies, Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld Intel was looking for new revenue streams while, at the same time, hoping to steer the direction of standards for Web...

"Most consumers won't upgrade unless they have a good reason -- they are buying a new computer, for instance," Laura DiDio, senior analyst with Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld Buying habits in the business community, she said, are not much different. "About 15 percent of all ...

"This is night and day from what we saw 10 or 12 years ago, or even five years ago," said Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio In the past, Microsoft may have attempted to buy-out or overpower its industry peers, but Redmond is reacting to what users want, the analyst added...

"Scalix, like many other Linux and open source vendors, is trying to distinguish itself and its products in an increasingly crowded field," Laura DiDio, senior analyst for the Yankee Group, told LinuxInsider. "There's a lot more competition in the Linux/open source market these days."

While Lenovo's encryption technology is necessary, it is not unique, Senior Analyst Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group told TechNewsWorld. In today's computing world, such measures are extremely necessary, she said "Lenovo's decision to incorporate a software/hardware package tha...

Microsoft may never go far enough in opening code or supporting interoperability to some, but its VHD move demonstrates the software giant has changed, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider "They continue to demonstrate flexibility in the face of market rea...