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Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider that while the browser is becoming bigger in terms of its technology and is building a solid audience among home and small-business users, Mozilla is still far from making inroads into the enterprise market. However, the corporate market is a segment of the computing field that the Mozilla Foundation is beginning to target, particularly with a new suite of products that includes the Thunderbird enterprise e-mail application...

"They would like to blunt the threat of Linux," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld. "Software for many of these places, outside of Japan, is still very much a novelty. Microsoft is looking to compete on more equal footing in terms of cost. The other thing is [that the strategy] combats the bootleg stuff."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that, although she is not a copyright expert and therefore cannot state with assurance or authority that either SCO or Novell has the best claim, she can offer her opinion "My opinion is that, on the surface, th...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that while anticompetitive issues persist around Microsoft, the company has changed somewhat and is now more amenable to its customers in terms of licensing and protocols However, DiDio said, the reason is not necessar...

Yankee Group senior analyst and Microsoft observer Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that Microsoft is likely to look bad in the matter regardless of what the company does. However, she said she also doubts Rowe's insistence that he did not plan to profit from publicity or a settlement over the domain...

When the ruling originally came down, developers worried that the method of Web sites calling plug-ins that then are opened in a browser would be thrown into question, Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio noted "That uncertainty is what companies most want to avoid in these...

Calling Intel a bellwether stock, Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that the company's 22 percent rise in revenues compared with fourth-quarter 2002 is good news for the economy -- and an auspicious beginning for 2004 "[Those numbers are] tellin...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that those still using older Windows software or intending to do so for the next two years are probably extremely sensitive to cost issues. She also noted that Linux has gained widespread adoption overseas as well as in the United States...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that companies often seek to settle patent cases whenever it makes sense to do so, rather than risk taking them to a jury. "Microsoft and others have found out that juries can award large sums of money," DiDio ...

The popularity of game software is built on consumer buzz, and Xbox titles are selling, but they're not generating the revenue Microsoft wants them to generate, said Turley. Likewise, Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group senior analyst, told TechNewsWorld that although Xbox units are "flying out the door," Microsoft isn't making any money on them.

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said the phase-out comes according to plan and should surprise no one, adding that customers have maintained legacy software systems as much as possible through the economic downturn However, DiDio said that with NT 4.0 approaching its s...

"My first reaction, when reading [SCO's] letter, is that it was difficult to get past [the] first paragraph," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "I understand that The SCO Group is trying to explain its position, and by so doing it hopes to change the opinion -- of a large portion of the high-tech industry -- that it is 'the bad guy.' Unfortunately, the die was cast in March 2003 when The SCO Group launched its lawsuit against IBM...

"With all of the conversation about defection to Linux from the Microsoft world, it's actually been Sun that's been hit the worst," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld. "It's almost like there's blood in the water -- everyone's been homing in on them, and they've had a lot of mass defections."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said that Microsoft, as well as any other software vendor, painfully knows the price of piracy, which has prompted the company to throw millions toward global enforcement of copyrights. "They're all losing billions a year in lost revenue from this stuff," said DiDio, adding that the issue can make friends of rivals in the software industry. "There is not a software vendor out there who hasn't been a victim of this."

"This seems to be a real departure in strategy for Wind River, which did not appear to be in the Linux camp before this," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider. "Clearly, Wind River had some choices to make." ...

As I also mentioned last week, I moderated a panel made up of Ted Farrel (chief architect and director of strategy for Oracle), Greg Stein (chairman of the Apache Software Foundation), John Montgomery (director of developer and platform evangelism for Microsoft) and my friend Laura DiDio (a research director at the Yankee Group)...

Perhaps it should go without saying, but without the integrated circuit, e-business as we know it would not exist. Indeed, Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that "no discussion of high-technology patents -- even if one is specifically talking about e-business patents -- would be complete without mentioning two of the greatest geniuses in semiconductor technology, upon which the foundation for networking and e-business is based."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio, referring to Microsoft's focus and reliance on XML in its new and forthcoming products, said the issuance of XML schemas is a matter of common sense from a technical perspective DiDio, who indicated customers are surprised by the flexib...

To help me keep the peace among participants who rarely agree with each other, Laura DiDio from the Yankee Group will be providing the analyst perspective so I can just mediate -- I mean moderate. It starts at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 19th. If you're there, stop by. I'm expecting it to be rather lively...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that she is closely watching a company called Sunbelt Software. In the summer of 2002, the company produced a US$19.95 product, called iHateSpam, and was stunned by the response "They sold over 200,000 copies of...