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Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that the Cloudscape release, a result of IBM's Informix acquisition, represents a Java database that has not been an area of growth. However, Gardner said the open-source move could have meaning. "Any time a product ...
Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner.
Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner.
Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider that therepercussions of all the SCO cases might be felt in other ways as well. "You have thewhole idea of defining intellectual property," he said. "It used to bethat lawsuits and software made odd bedfellows, but that's not the case anylonger."
"The old, gray lady takes a powder," is how Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner described the Comdex cancellation this year. "In its heyday, it really was the premier event. It certainly was an innovative idea at the time it was created," Gardner told TechNewsWorld. "It didn't always seem like a good fit, but the geeks and the propeller heads got together and had a good time and bonded. That was important."
As the SCO case progresses, it seems that both sides are willing to bring out as much legal heavy artillery as possible. Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider that the back-and-forth claims and accusations are compelling "They're each trying to get leverage," he ...
"The whole idea of getting the right information at the right time has been a struggle," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld. "It's really truly a mess [for enterprises] on a micro level, because it's your own PC, and at a macro level with the corporate network or the Internet." ...
As Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times: "IBM is saying, basically, 'Show us the error of our ways.' But SCO believes that it will lose leverage in the suit, and that any details that are released will allow for the code to be fixed." ...
Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said standards, interoperability and adoption of Web services all rely on each other, but he added that the standards are presently most important "Web services really depends on interoperability, and that comes from standards, so it's ...
Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that three things have illustrated IBM's SOA strategy: the new WebSphere platform and tools; educational initiatives that highlight the various stages of Web services and SOA; and professional services to help businesses get them going...
In fact, there has been much speculation in the industry about the effect that the Sun-Microsoft alliance could have on Linux. "There's an interesting sort of development [in] how Java and Linux have come together," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said. "Linux and Ja...
Dana Gardner, senior analyst for application infrastructure and software platforms at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that Friday's announcement took him by surprise "It was very dramatic. If there had been some settlement one aspect, [such as] Java and Microsoft J...
The most important developers -- from Microsoft's perspective -- are the independent software vendors (ISVs) that ultimately will determine the success of the next Windows platform by creating the next generation of enterprise and consumer applications for it, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...
Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said the indemnification issue is less significant on the desktop, but he did call the deal "a very auspicious development for Linux on the desktop." "Given what Sun is doing with its open-source desktop products, I think it really does...
"I think their portrayal of an end-to-end Linux solution that's tuned and installed by a single vendor is interesting," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider. "They're not only providing open-source products, but providing an open-source framework. It's end-to-end rather than the point or architectural approach."
Regardless of vendor, though, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said a confluence of factors -- as well as interoperability improvements -- is making Linux on the desktop look better than ever. "There've been several companies out there pushing Linux on the desktop," G...
Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner referred to a philosophical change in approach toward high-performance computing that has favored clusters and the assemblage of cheaper components to achieve HPC capabilities, rather than the traditional use of more expensive supercomputers...
Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider that Java and Linux tend to complement one another, and he confirmed the momentum of the open-source programming language and operating system ...
Despite the continued use of massive, monolithic machines for highly complex problems in defense, life sciences and other research, a new approach to high-performance computing in the form of distributed computing and clusters continues to gain traction for its cost and time savings, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...
Even as IBM presses forward with its Blue Gene initiative, another trend also is taking hold in the supercomputing space. Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that the traditional, monolithic approach to supercomputing increasingly is being replaced by a distributed-computing model -- cheaper, faster utilization of clustered computers.
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