October 31, 2011
Motorola Mobility to sack 800 ahead of Google gobble On The Register, Paul Kunert looks at company changes following the massive acquisition. ” As part of the cost-cutting efforts, Motorola is rolling some 800 heads and will take a $31m restructuring on the nose in Q4 ended 1 January 2012, including $27m of severance costs and $4m facility exit costs,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
If Forrester likes Macs for IT today, they’ll love Chromebooks tomorrow On ZDNet, Sam Diaz looks at what the analysts are saying about the future of Macs in the workplace and what that means for Google. ” Since the beginning, Google has been selling fast boot time as part of its Chromebook pitch, arguing that browser-based computing in a cloud environment is not only more efficient but also much faster. The report also noted that users are impatient about the time it takes to open programs like Excel – but that’s a bit misleading. Boot times for those bloated Office programs can also take some time on a Mac, as well,” Diaz writes. What’s your opinion?
Red Hat, Cisco partner to bring open source to the cloud On The VAR Guy, Dave Courbanou reports on the partnership. ” Both Cisco and Red Hat stress these moves will help migrate users into cloud-based solutions, although these collaborations seem to be bringing Red Hat deeper into existing cloud technology, rather than bringing an end-to-end solution for customers to go 100 percent cloud. At any rate, if you’re a reseller of FlexPod solutions, you have access to Red Hat-based CVD and FlexPod solutions right now,” he writes. What’s your opinion?