Oracle to Red Hat: It’s Not Your Father’s Linux Market Anymore
October 19, 2010
Oracle is having a new go at Red Hat. But this time, instead of a RHEL clone, it’s offering an improved version of Linux designed to optimize the performance of its own hardware and software. Although it won’t deal a knockout blow to Red Hat, Oracle’s Linux will certainly take share in the large Oracle database, middleware and application installed bases (and may further marginalize Suse). Like Google’s Android, it suggests that Linux is beginning to fragment in the same way that Unix did.
Salesforce's Benioff Delivers at Dreamforce. Revenue Builders or Social Fodder?
November 19, 2009
Salesforce.com Announces new Social Applications | www.thestandard.com
Salesforce.com announced major initiatives with Computer Associates,Facebook and Twitter all around their new Chatter feature which Mark Benioff calls the greatest changes since Dreamforce.com began 8 yrs ago. But are these additions social fodder or new streams of revenue for the CRM giant?
Nvidia leaps into supercomputers
October 5, 2009
Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing" | www.tgdaily.com
Nvidia is in the test of its life with big stakes, big investments, and big risks – Fermi is a hail Mary pass if ever there was one. It’s not as reactionary or impulsive as some have suggested and a plan I think has been in the process for the past three years. Nvidia has been putting the pieces in place for the Fermi product through acquisition, industry initiatives and setting up the platform. One of Jen Hsun Hung’s strengths is his long range vision and I think you can see it at work here.
July 30, 2009
Digitimes Insight: Intel Pine Trail launch to delay | www.digitimes.com
In a meeting yesterday with Intel excutives I learned that Pineview, Intel's Atom CPU intgrated with a graphics processor and memory manger, is not delayed as has been reported elsewhere.
Continued growth in all segements in computer graphics industry
July 28, 2009
The Compute Graphics market will have a CAGR of 8% to 2013 | www.jonpeddie.com
The computer graphics industry has enjoyed almost non-stop growth since it was established the late 1970s. Today, computer graphics hardware and software (not counting services, maintenance and other aspects) are worth $68 billion – that’s a mind boggling average growth rate of 16.5% for 28 years! (Charts available: email jon@jonpeddie.com)
The convergence of CG computing and visualization has arrived.
July 28, 2009
How does the world change when you can see what you’re thinking? | jonpeddie.com
Today, with GPU compute the researcher launches the computation in his or her own lab with his or her local supercomputer and with the same machine does the visualizations the way he or she wants them done. Depending on the complexity of the task jobs that took weeks now takes days, jobs that took days can be done in minutes and the time scales are further compressing. Productivity goes up, quality of research goes up, humanity benefits - it is the convergence of compute and viz.
2009 Digital Video Software Market
July 27, 2009
Digital video software market hit $1.5 billion in 2008. | jonpeddie.com
The digital videos software market supplies the tools for movie and TV making and has weathered the recession well and is poised for growth in 2010.
The market for GPUs exploded in Q2 29%
July 27, 2009
AMD soars in Q2'09, Intel and Nvidia also show great gains | jonpeddie.com
We've hit bottom and have stone-skipped off - Q3 and 4 are looking very good for the PC indiustry
January 12, 2009
Lenovo set to reboot from the top | www.ft.com
Spending several recent years in Lenovo's sales channel, this latest restructure will not speed revenue due to: * Antiquated IBM policies * Slow distribution channels
February 8, 2007
Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years: Gates | news.yahoo.com
We’ve been hearing about ITV for ten years, and online TVs since WebTV popped up. Many of us have tried at one time or another to get (and pay for) a movie via the internet, only to be sadly disappointed in either the time it took, the quirkiness of the PC, the poor sound quality and the intermittent picture quality. Like the old expression “I’ll believe it when I see it,” well we’ll see it when we believe (in) it. That’s not to say that all the above cited service won’t be available, or that one or two of them may actually become successful to some degree, but IPTV is not going to quickly or easily replace FOA, Cable, Satellite and DVD (no mater how you get one.)
February 7, 2012
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
November 22, 2011