By Michael Coté on July 5, 2011
Touted at the next thing in cloud, Platform as a Service is receiving much attention now. While PaaS has been far from a failure, it hasn’t been a mega success…yet. I’ve been talking with several people about Platform as a Service use recently: with all the vendors (and us analysts as well!) going on about […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Numbers, PaaS, Programming, The New Thing
By Michael Coté on August 17, 2010
OSS rises in the enterprise, smart phones, CyberMafia, github.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Numbers
By Michael Coté on June 7, 2010
While we “don’t do numbers” at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numbers each week. Here are some:
Mobile impulse buying
MacRumors live-blogging the Steve Jobs during WWDC:
Now three stores on the iPhone: iTunes, iBookstore, App Store. Over 150 million accounts with credit cards associated with them.
This Week in Conference Attendees
Microsoft TechEd: “6,000 IT pros […]
Posted in Business | Tagged App Store, apple, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iTunes, Numbers, Steve Jobs
By Michael Coté on May 24, 2010
Conferences attendees, consulting billions, mainframe use, cloud apps & savings.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, google, microsoft, Numbers
By Michael Coté on May 14, 2010
$1 software, fixing Sun revenue, Android v. iPhone.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, google, ibm, iPhone, Numbers, Sun Microsystems
By Michael Coté on May 7, 2010
$2M for Evernote, Netflix growth, Flash poaching, virtual goods, cloud in the SMB.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, Cloud, Evernote, google, Netflix, Nintendo, Numbers, OpenTable, Systems Management, Yahoo
By Michael Coté on April 28, 2010
Private Twitter Yammer now has 70,000 corporate clients, and 800,000+ total seats (users). At least 1,000 of those companies are paying for the product, and Sacks says 10%-15% of seats are converting to paid. 70% of Fortune 500 companies are using Yammer, says Sacks. Paying customers include Cisco, Nationwide, AstraZeneca, Alcatel-Lucent, Sungard and Molson Coors. […]
Posted in Business | Tagged App Store, apple, Fortune 500, HTC Corporation, iPhone, microsoft, Numbers, yammer
By Michael Coté on April 5, 2010
iPad sales & interest, $1B open source, paperless taxes, piles of cash.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Numbers
By Michael Coté on March 8, 2010
Paying for Facebook, software everywhere, Windows 7 sales.
Posted in Business | Tagged Adobe Systems, apple, ibm, iTunes, microsoft, Numbers
By Michael Coté on February 24, 2010
KLM & GMail, Macs at work, Austin VCs, a billion pounds of data.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst, apple, Consumer electronics, google, investment, Numbers, Personal computer, redmonk, Sony