Hello again, Moore’s Law
There are rumors of massive layoffs at IBM. True or not, there is no denying the company has had years of consecutive quarterly revenue declines. Poor Ginni Rommety gets the blame, but my view is IBM forgot about Moore’s Law and continuous value improvements as it diversified into software and services over the last two […]
Software will eat the world and other hogwash
I am a lifelong software guy – developer, analyst, blogger, author– and have marveled how the industry has grown around the world over the decades. The New Florence blog has number of software innovation categories, my books are chockfull of software executives and projects (the underpinnings of many innovations in the case studies in the […]
How Moore’s Law Put Apple in the Driver’s Seat and Cost Steve Ballmer His Job
With the Mac’s 30th anniversary, lots of folks are writing all sorts of articles about it, so I thought it only fitting to bring up my own thoughts on what happened and how Apple got control away from Microsoft. It’s not a theory I have seen anywhere else, but it’s the one that makes the […]
Flattening the Curve
Computerworld ran an interesting piece last week about the slowdown in the phenomenon known as Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law was never a law in the scientific sense. Gravity is a law. What Gordon Moore postulated in 1965 was an exponential growth curve that said the number of transistors that engineers could put on a chip […]
How Much Information & Overload Phenomenon!
The Global Information Industry of the UCSD has put together statistics about how much information gets consumed by Americans every day. Two previous studies, by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian in 2000 and 2003, analyzed the quantity of original content cr…
