vendors in comment and analysis
Leader: Vendors must quit 'bully' tactics
Leader The prickly subject of software licence audits once again got the backs of corporate IT departments up this week, as users accused cynical vendors of using them as a tool to squeeze more money out of buyers. [12 Jan 2007]
Licence to bill: vendors and their licensing practices
Comment Software licensing affects all of us, so it wasn't surprising silicon.com received a virtual sack full of mail last week after criticising vendors' current licensing practices. Vendors were appalled by... [30 May 2000]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment It's the interest of some vendors to put the fear of God into people," she says, pointing out that the legislative framework in the UK is relatively sparse when it comes to prescribing specific information security... [08 Apr 2008]
Vendors bare souls, discuss vulnerabilities
Comment But most vendors have still been criticised at one time or another for suppressing information on their weaknesses and obstructing users from seeing the full security picture. The plan is to offer... [17 Dec 2001]
OS Wars: Unix vendors prepare to take on Windows XP
Comment The vendors are creating more robust versions of Unix that they claim will provide mainframe-like stability in the next generation operating systems. However, traditional Unix vendors are not standing... [22 Oct 2001]
When CRM met mobile: Will the vendors get it together in time?
Comment Likewise, having a volume of information at hand is not important, while timeliness and accessibility of information become a priority - these things are not the strong points of most desktop CRM vendors. [14 Aug 2001]
"Downturn? What downturn?" ask BI vendors
Comment Vendors have historically focused on the front-end of business intelligence - analytics and so on - but now they're looking at the back-end too - extracting data, storage," he said. Vendors of business... [25 Nov 2003]
Anti-virus vendors in the firing line
Comment And once again, anti-virus vendors stand accused of hyping the threat beyond reason. It's one of those issues with more questions than answers, but as far as the anti-virus vendors go, the verdict must... [19 Sep 2001]
Menage à trois - the truth about users, vendors and consultants
Comment He identifies an unholy trinity of IT vendors, large consultancies and IT directors. Needless to say the vendors reject this entirely. He characterises the 1990s as a "fashion parade of shoddy solutions"... [26 Mar 2001]
How small IT vendors can win big accounts
Comment Despite the perception that large user organisations - particularly the multinationals - shy away from buying IT from small UK vendors because of fears the company they choose won't be able to deliver or (worse) will go... [18 Feb 2005]
SME Philes: Fool's gold rush for vendors?
Comment Small businesses make up a large proportion of UK spend on IT but have long been hard for all but a few vendors to target. Getting to grips with a complex matrix of channel options addressing a massively diffuse,... [25 Nov 2004]
Telecoms equipment vendors squeezed
Comment Last year, telecoms equipment vendors were riding high - paying extraordinary amounts of money for a technology was years from the mass market, wheeling and dealing their way to bigger, better partnerships and alliances. [25 Jul 2001]
3GSM Review: Ovum on vendors' flight from hype
Comment Major infrastructure vendors are making serious efforts to reign in the hype that has characterised the industry for the last few years. But beneath the bustle and frenzy there are clear signs that... [01 Mar 2002]
What if... Santa believed everything vendors told him?
Comment We know technology vendors don't sell technology products anymore - they sell 'solutions'. His c.v.boasts years at Nortel Networks, Bloor Research, SAP and Sybase, and his job now involves working with... [19 Dec 2001]
Leader: CIOs' perceptions of the big vendors
Leader So it was that in May, at one of the year's major events for heads of IT (the IT Directors Forum on board the Oriana cruise liner), silicon.com asked 267 of the great and good on the user side of the equation to rank 10 of the largest... [22 Jun 2006]
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