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Blu-ray beats HD DVD... Now get ready for the next format war

I have to hand it to fellow analyst Rob Enderle. Way back in August of 2005, he called the high-def format war in a piece titled "Blu-ray Wins or Nothing Does."

Then again, he also said in that article that "the more likely outcome is that the market will bypass both products and move to something else," so perhaps he wasn't perfectly prescient.

And come to think of it, a year later (in December 2006) he changed his mind entirely in columns titled "Optical HD Battle May Be Over: HD DVD Wins," "… Read more

IT Business Edge podcast: the impact of GPLv3

I spent an engaging hour yesterday with IT Business Edge, talking about the likely industry impact of GPLv3. Other participants on the call included:

Rob Enderle, an analyst and principal of the Enderle Group, and also a blogger with us at IT Business Edge; Bernard Golden, founder and CEO of open source consulting firm Navica and a blogger for CIO.com. Chris Maresca, founder and senior partner of the Olliance Group, a leading open source business consultancy. Rob can be a firebrand, but I found him to be a perfect gentleman and his positions well-reasoned. He did help to make … Read more

Won't someone think of the children?!

ABC's Ashley Phillips says iPhone fever: Not everyone buys hype.

But some critics believe that the "early adopters" who wait anxiously in line next week outside Apple and AT&T stores... could be in for a nasty surprise.

Really? Which critics think Apple and AT&T's customers are ignorant idiots who know nothing of the product they're going to stand in line for hours and sign away two years of their cellular lives to get?

According to industry analysts, some of the drawbacks are the lack of built-in GPS, which is already widely … Read more