Apple and IBM get it, so why can’t RIM?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 206 views

IBM and Apple give customers what they want, whether it’s a mainframe or a tablet — but RIM gives customers what they used to want

Apple and IBM — two very, very different companies — have learned to listen to their customers and give them what they want, whether it’s a stodgy mainframe or a supercool tablet.  Read more…

Where do the tablets go?

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 214 views

So, your organization has a mainframe – had one for years – and everything is nicely locked down. You can recover almost up to the minute the system or subsystem crashed (which it hardly ever does), and you’ve got people who seem to know, almost by instinct these days, when something isn’t performing quite right.

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All change in the office

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 343 views

It started with me looking for the best ‘office’ application to run under Honeycomb (Android 3) on a tablet – but I got sidetracked. It seems that Oracle has dumped OpenOffice, and Microsoft has a beta of Office 365 – it’s new cloud variant of the ubiquitous office software.

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Taking the tablets!

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 497 views

A few weeks ago I was talking about how William Data Systems had integrated their ZEN z/OS network management suite of products with iPhones and iPads and they’d also just included Blackberry and Android phones. I’d been particularly impressed how an iPad user had been able to identify where a problem was occurring and taken steps to rectify it. More recently, the iPad 2 has become available, and I thought it was definitely time to to investigate whether I ought to get myself a tablet device.

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Harvard Business School Faculty on the New Apple Tablet

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 161 views

(had to get an Apple Tablet mention on here somehow… LOL)

Twenty-five years ago, we moved from centralized, mainframe-based computing to localized, desktop computing as computing power became cheaper. …

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