Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio
driven extreme fighting giants industry merely value
AOL's value is driven to the extreme merely because you had two industry giants fighting for it.
feels group hard hit
This group feels that they are particularly hard hit and that they don't have much leverage.
developer key platform reputation rich stingy
They have a reputation for being very stingy with their APIs and code, but the key to any platform like MSN is applications and a rich developer network.
afford best companies few tools
They are getting better on tools and things, and they can afford the best and the brightest. They're one of the few companies that has not had layoffs.
core firmly market percent sun targeting
With the new products, Sun is targeting about 20 percent of the market that has high-end servers. But they have a core constituency firmly in their camp.
bullish decisive moves themselves year
I'm much more bullish on them this year than I was a year ago. They are making some very strong, bold, and decisive moves to get themselves back on track. 2006 is going to be very interesting.
If you don't have those estimates, how do you do a TCO? That's scary.
companies public small watching
I really like small companies that aren't public but they'd be ones I'd be watching when they do an IPO.
building few meant next past people software start systems thinking twice word year
For the past few years, the word proprietary has meant 'bad' software, ... But I think people are going to start thinking twice before building their own systems with open-source software in the next year or two.
active best effort mixed takes users wait
If I had a mixed environment, I would wait and see the effort it takes to deploy Active Directory and then see if Active Directory or NDS is best for my environment, ... Without redirect, users will have to choose.
choose customers enterprise flies hat red steve sun
Does Sun still want customers to choose Solaris over OpenSolaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Absolutely. But like Steve Ballmer before him, McNealy realizes that he'll 'catch more flies with honey, than he will with vinegar',
businesses card consumer consumers credit dangerous harm networks pcs peril software suffer technology viruses
It's a different, more dangerous world. Technology is more sophisticated, but so are the software pirates. Consumers or businesses that deploy counterfeit software put their PCs and networks at peril for encountering tampered code, viruses and even credit card theft. In the end, the consumer and the corporation may suffer just as much, if not more, harm than the software vendors.
definitely product whether
They'll definitely keep integrating it, whether through product development or acquisition.
aol battle compete created developer google news web
They have to do this to survive, compete and thrive, because MSN is in a pitched battle with Yahoo, Google and AOL ( NYSE: AOL - news ), which have created their own Web developer platforms.