Rob Enderle

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Over the next few months we’ll get a chance to compare how two new CEOs are doing in their respective companies. Neither Meg Whitman at HP nor Scott Thompson at Yahoo were experienced in the kind of companies they took over. Whitman got the more complex company but also got a team of seasoned executives […]

One of the advantages of being one of the most stable companies in the enterprise segment is that IBM is able to focus on strengthening relationships to broaden their sales channels.This was the core of a presentation they made to a group of us this week and I think it bears covering, because the more […]

IT Opinion Piece: A lot of us have been viewing the Google deployment of cloud services in Los Angeles as a repeat of what killed Netscape: Over promising a technology that couldn’t deliver. In my view, it hasn’t been going well.  So poorly, in fact, that Google last week implied that the LA effort was […]

As we look back on HP over the last decade or so, we see a company that has moved to the #1 or #2 position in each of its chosen markets, despite the fumbles of the last four COEs.Current CEO Meg Whitman is different: she wasn’t selected on narrow criteria like Fiorina or Hurd, or […]

Research firm Gartner is out this week with their server numbers. What’s fascinating is that IBM passed HP for market lead in revenue but is well behind HP in terms of shipments, suggesting the companies are largely focused on vastly different product sets. IBM is more up-market and likely showcasing their traditional success with very […]

Steve Jobs shut down Apple’s corporate-focused sales efforts when he took Apple over and at one point even referred to CIOs as “orifices.” However, despite this dislike, the trend many of us call “the Consumerization of IT” – which is driving consumer products into corporations – is largely led by the iPhone and iPad, and […]

With Steve Jobs’ untimely departure there has been a lot of speculation whether Tim Cook can do the job.   Given that the iPhone 4S failed to meet expectations and Apple missed expectations on his first quarterly financial analyst call, this doubt has recently grown.    Recently, Sam Palmisano named Virginia Rometty to replace him as CEO […]

I spent last week at HP’s Printing and Imaging division and the employees raved about (as opposed to rave at) their new CEO, Meg Whitman, who appeared to be hitting all the right notes with them. This week the rumor is that she has revisited and reversed the decision to spin out the HP PC […]

Technology in the next two years will likely be defined by big battles between major tech companies. HP vs. Oracle vs. HP is one such battle. AMD vs. Intel vs. NVIDIA vs. Qualcomm is another. Yet the battle we’ll likely be the most focused on – because it involves personal devices – is the one […]