Whatever happened to that chummy Wintel alliance? You know, the Microsoft Windows/Intel chip cartel that has long helped to cement Microsoft’s hold on the industry?
In a significant snub, Intel has decided not to upgrade its 80,000 desktops from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
As an inside …
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I’m very grateful to Digg user BrokeBody for reminding me of just how intoxicated we were with the Linux desktop back in 2003. BrokeBody points to a fantastically funny (in retrospect) Linux.com article that quotes Siemens Business Systems on the future of the Linux desktop:
20 percent market …
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Dave already covered SpringSource’s impressive Series B investment from Benchmark and new investor Accel, but the interesting factoid behind the investment is that the two firms co-invested at all, given the commonality between the two: Peter Fenton.
Two years ago, Fenton bolted from Accel to Benchmark, a move that jarred the cozy VC world. …
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Remember the long tail? It was the omnipresent theory that recommended there were oodles of cash to be made by monetizing a market’s disparate tastes via the Web.
Why sell a million copies of Led Zeppelin’s Coda, when you can make a thriving business of selling two to three duplicates of your neighbor’s garage band to Rick, two duplicates of a Nigerian band’s tunes to Susan, and so on?
As new research highlighted in Harvard Business Review recommends, the answer might well be that the real money is in the blockbuster, not the long tail, after all:
Meanwhile, our research also showed that success is concentrated in ever fewer best-selling titles at the head of the distribution curve. From 2000 to 2005 the number of titles in the top 10 percent of weekly sales dropped by more than 50 percent–an increase in concentration that is common in winner-take-all markets. The importance of individual ideal sellers is not diminishing over time. It is growing….
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