Craig Burton

AOL at IM Games Again: AOL Will Go Down
AOL leadership continues to showóonce againóhow ìnon-strategicî it is in the big picture. A strategic vendor would take a leadership role in driving interoperability, not by making lame excuses for its blatant activities to prevent interoperability.
This is an actual message I received the other day while using [...]

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Schmidt Partime CEO at Google–Gee, do you think he has been thinking about leaving Novell for a bit. It really worked for him to be a “part time” CEO at Novell, maybe it will work at Google, neither company has a good plan to make money in the future, hey, I see a match.

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CTP as a NetWare Channel?
I previously pointed out that adding new channels for the sale of NetWare was not strategic for Novell and thus the acquisition of CTP could hardly be viewed as strategic.
While this is so, I also realized that CTP is an integrator. The integrator does what the customer says. Thus there is [...]

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My First Thoughts on Hailstorm
It doesnít take a rocket scientist to figure out that the server operating system is going to become a commodity. Linux is already a viable server OS commodity with critical mass. It is going to happen. This is not good news for Microsoftís core business.
People called me crazy when I was [...]

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Schmidt Out as CEO
To me, this headline: Schmidt out as CEO as Novell buys CTP can only be viewed as good news. Eric has been absent for at least two years and has provided little strategic leadership during his entire tenure from my perspective (although he was paid as if he did, some 20 million [...]

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He’s twelve. His name is Alex. I haven’t seen him for three months and is the reason I haven’t blogged for a bit. “alex”

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