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According to the Wall Street Journal, Sun Microsystems is planning a 15% cut in its workforce. Perhaps one of the major problems for Sun is that its sales force and margins are based on selling proprietary hardware. And like most … Continue reading →

One of my friends sent me this patent to see if it was something that our company would be interested in. After reading the abstract and summary it reinforced my belief that there are several applications in the world where … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal today has a short article on the Sun ZFS solution. We have some customers who have switched to the Sun Thumper solution and for their smaller storage applications they seem to like it. Other customers are … Continue reading →

John Chambers of Cisco is forecasting a decline in sales. Sales will decline as much as 10 percent in the second quarter, which ends in January, Chambers said yesterday on a conference call. In August, he predicted a gain of … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing seems to be the ‘hot’ term now. But it seems like it might turn into another way for vendor’s to lock customers into their services. Service providers won’t admit this, but once they’ve got your data, they’ll try … Continue reading →

Everyone seems to have noticed that NetApp has canceled its much hyped Customer Conference. The NetApp folks are blaming the economy. It is interesting that NetApp is saying that their customers are unable to travel to the customer conference, because … Continue reading →

Why is it that so many of the big companies that are getting into trouble in the current economic environment are NetApp customers? Is there a correlation or is it just coincidence? Below are three examples which illustrate the linkage: … Continue reading →

I am returning home to Delaware from San Diego today after a very busy week of visiting our customers in Southern California. We met with customers in publishing, entertainment, micro electronics, aerospace and defense. Every customer is looking at how … Continue reading →

The financial panic has hit Wilmington, Delaware. Many of the companies in the news have offices here – AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, etc. As a member of the Delaware business community we are offering to help … Continue reading →

Today the news reports are all about the financial panic. The great sell off and the doom that is coming. But there are always ways to economize and people are at their best when things look bad. Today people are … Continue reading →