David M Smith

I’ve come to view “software upgrade” as a term that meant, yes, “a software upgrade, but you will really need a hardware upgrade if you hope to actually use it even for what you used to use it for”. Especially with new OS versions. It has been a given that new versions of OSes [...]

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A relatively obscure acquisition (Torch Mobile, a Toronto browser specialist, by RIM, makers of BlackBerry) highlighted and reinforced something I’d been thinking about for a while: that virtually all major companies have now or are moving towards webkit and HTML5.  RIM has made a lot of progress with its own browser in recent years, but [...]

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As leader of Gartner’s cloud computing agenda, I don’t normally respond to random blog posts, but this  from James Watters in Siliconangle requires some response. I will limit it to the facts and leave readers to draw their own conclusions. (This includes references to Gartner published research which requires a subscription to see the entire [...]

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