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Global trends, both good and bad, are going Intel's way, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT research, told the E-Commerce Times One is that prices for PCs and notebooks continue to drop. "In a tight economy, if you can deliver powerful computing products for cheaper and chea...

"While I don't think the situation in San Francisco is common, it does point out some dangers related to managing and maintaining IT," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "If administrators aren't properly managed or supervised -- as it happens al...

"I think part of the problem with the market for home servers is, there's been a great deal of confusion at the vendor level about defining what a home server is going to be," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "There has been a lot of visionary pr...

"I would file a story like this under corporate irony," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-It, told TechNewsWorld. "The whole 'Wintel' platform idea is something people are so used to that when the companies part ways on positions having to do with their own autonomous business practices, it's a little surprising to see them diverge."

"I think that Apple has opened up an interesting can of worms for the rest of the industry, and that's the degree to which a computing-focused product succeeds on its technical merits versus on its design," Charles King, president and principal analyst with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

"What I find particularly interesting about it . . . is that it's the first instance of a hybrid supercomputer," said Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT. "Rather than just a monolithic single chip architecture, this is a blended architecture that uses AMD Opteron and...

"Via has been in the UMPC market way before anyone else, but they have a lot of competition coming up behind right now. It's a great example of how hardware vendors can leverage the dynamic of the open source development model," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT ...

"IBM has a great deal of expertise in Linux, as well as great software assets in the Lotus product set," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "What IBM did with this offering is leverage its expertise in the product set specifically for the SMB market." Wi...

"If you've seen the [standard industry] photos, a wafer is the large circular object about the size of an old LP record that somebody in a clean suit in a clean manufacturing room is holding up for everyone's admiration," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.

Indeed, an open source initiative survives only "to the degree that its developer community prospers," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider "When a vendor like Sun decides to pursue an open source development model with some of its formerly proprietary...

The deal gives Cray some additional reach, Charles King, president and principal analyst for Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The company obviously would like to be seen less as a niche player in the supercomputer market. They've tended to be overshadowed by vendors who were leveraging x86 chips that dominate the market."

"I think the conventional wisdom about industry standard servers is that they are all the same under the covers," Charles King, president and principal analyst with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "If you go from one x86 rack server to the next, there are some differences, but the end performance and power consumption are roughly the same."

"It's an interesting deal," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think it points to the growing importance of corporate network optimization, as businesses continue to build out their IT infrastructures, not only to share data but [also] in delivering applications and services over wide-area networks. Optimizing those networks becomes extremely critical."

"From the standpoint of the speed of the drive, there are some 10,000 RPM drives out there, but they are mostly higher-end drives for enterprise class servers," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT "But from the standpoint of a small form factor drive, these are designe...

"A couple of things are happening at Microsoft -- there's definitely a broader shift in figuring out how the company can provide an interesting and profitable range of services by leveraging their existing software and intellectual property," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

Nevertheless, Hester did some great things for AMD in the time he was there, Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. However, the company's current travails are undeniable "AMD is a company with a lot of problems right now," he noted. "A lot of...

It's a "terrific deal" overall and in line with other efforts EMC is making in the small-business space, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "EMC has a great reputation in the enterprise space, but where the company has something of a lack is name recognition among consumers and small business."

"I think it's a sign that the open source database market is healthy and has a lot of promise," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider It's also an effective response to Sun Microsystems' January acquisition of open source database developer MySQL. Ent...

"I've taken a look at his book; he's an interesting guy," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "He's been around the industry for a long time. He's on the Environmental Defense Fund board and also involved in some micro-lending stuff." It would be i...

"I think familiarity is a very powerful issue in a brand that's as well known and as established as Microsoft Windows," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider "Frankly, Ubuntu has made some really great strides in creating a Linux-based operating enviro...