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- Hoy or Adlington on a laptop lid? More likely than you might think...
- 10 best technologies to beat the downturn
- Trend Micro buries the hatchet
- Should you look at GAAP or non-GAAP?
- Getting off (on) the Cloud
- Getting off the Cloud
- HDS tapping UK storage demand
- SAP's support price rise has industry in a quandary
Jason Stamper's Blog: August 2008 Archives
Hoy or Adlington on a laptop lid? More likely than you might think...
August 28, 2008
If you thought the MacBook Air was cool, just take a look at this new laptop from British manufacturer Hi-Grade. It begs the question, how long will it be before Team GB find their way onto your laptop's lid?..[click continue reading for more on this entry]...
10 best technologies to beat the downturn
August 27, 2008
While the jury is still out on whether the UK economy is heading into a recession or just a period of low growth, there's never been a better time to look at some of the technologies that have the potential to reduce overall IT spending. So here is my pick of the top 10 technologies to help enterprises of all sizes beat the downturn...[click continue reading for more on this entry]...
Trend Micro buries the hatchet
August 20, 2008
You may recall a blog I wrote earlier in the week, after we had been accused of misrepresenting Trend Micro’s profits because we highlighted its net income (in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and not the firm’s operating income.
Net income was down 39%, while operating income was only down 4%. We gave both figures in our original news story.
Well I had a chat yesterday with the firm’s affable CFO and COO, Mahendra Negi, who agreed that we were quite right, and that a spokesperson for the firm should not have taken umbrage at our use of net income in the first place. “We read your blog and you are quite right, fair enough,” said Negi. “Our net income was as you showed it and I’m not going to go against that.” …[click continue reading for more on this story]…
Should you look at GAAP or non-GAAP?
August 18, 2008
Trend Micro accused us of writing a story that was “absolutely factually incorrect” because we said its second quarter profits dipped 40%. What’s irritating is that there was nothing wrong with our story whatsoever, but we pulled it down just in case while we investigated. We’re in the process of putting it back up.
“Trend Micro doesn’t define net income as profit,” a spokesperson told me. “You said profit dropped 40% which is absolutely wrong: it was down only 4%.”
Well I’m sorry for being a spoil-sport, but CBR has always -- and as far as I am concerned always will – gone on the net income figure when comparing profits. Trend Micro’s second quarter net income, in accordance with Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) was down 39%, to be precise. Its CFO/COO Mahendra Negi even put the figure in his slide deck (see below)...[click continue reading for more on this story]...
Getting off (on) the Cloud
August 15, 2008
No sooner do I pen a blog saying that so-called 'cloud computing' is not a new concept or even one that ushers in anything particularly new, than a press release lands on my desk espousing the virtues of cloud computing for extending SOA beyond the enterprise...[click continue reading for more]...
Getting off the Cloud
August 13, 2008
I’ve written before that I don’t think Cloud Computing is anything new: I still fail to see how it differs from Software as a Service (SaaS) with a bit of On-Demand computing thrown in where it makes sense.
I’m not saying the model mightn’t be more appealing in this day and age -- think spiralling power costs, limited data centre real estate, exploding storage and processing requirements -- I’m just saying that it’s not a new concept at all... [click continue reading for more]...
HDS tapping UK storage demand
August 08, 2008
I caught up with the head of Hitachi Data Systems in the UK this week: Steve Murphy. A Scot with almost 25 years experience in the industry including stints at Oracle, Sun, Fujitsu and EMC, he knows a thing or two about big systems. He also accused me of having more than a passing resemblance to Alan Shearer -- I think I'll assume that's meant as a compliment!
Anyway Murphy came in to lead the UK operation at Hitachi Data Systems around 18 months ago. He reckons the business was in decent shape then, but is doing even better now it's a little more focused on the task in hand. But does he see any evidence of a slowdown in spending in the UK market yet? ...[click continue reading below for more on this entry]...
Me?
Alan Shearer?
SAP's support price rise has industry in a quandary
August 01, 2008
I don't often post 'letters to the editor' I receive from vendors, because they are usually thinly veiled marketing exercises.
Not so with one I just received about SAP's recent announcement that it is raising the real prices of its support arrangements.
If you missed the news, SAP has announced it will transition all of its enterprise software customers to its recently introduced Enterprise Support maintenance offering, a move that will raise support prices for most of its 47,000 customers.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2009, and planned as a phased-in transition, SAP will shift existing customers to Enterprise Support, which carries an annual charge of 22% of net license fees. Most customers currently pay 17% of their license fees for support... [click continue reading for more on this entry]...
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