Instead of always trying to buy the market leader, one must always aim to buy anything but the market leader. Just as you have built up an investment in an innovative company that is clearly not the market leader, you find that it has been taken...
The value proposition of server-based computing has real economic wind," he added. The fat server-thin client model of computing has proved successful for market-leader Citrix, despite the late 1990s hype about the 'death of the PC' proving premature.
This week's news that the big Indian offshore IT firms are looking to set up bases in Central and Eastern Europe indicates a shift in the offshoring market. The Czech Republic has had a head start over most and established something of a fledgling...
The size of offshore outsourcing deals is up and a third of CIOs expect offshoring spend to increase in the next 12 months as businesses move from testing small projects to bigger deals, the study found.
There are plenty of good reasons why the government would want to offshore some IT work. Most private sector outsourcing deals will assume some level of offshore development now in order to keep costs down.
So has Threshers really shot itself in the foot or has it stumbled upon the viral marketing wheeze of the decade? Some people have caught wind of the fact Threshers' 40 per cent discount still doesn't undercut Tesco on some lines but consumers seem...