Derrick
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Is Microsoft’s shedding of jobs (for the first time in its history) a sign of things to come or could it be the start of a new leaner, meaner computer industry? Microsoft will shed 5000 of it’s around 90000 workforce blaming the decision on slower than expected revenue growth. The mess with Vista could be the behind the scenes reason for the decline in revenue growth, but let’s be honest we are in harsh economic times. Still, global spending in IT is only expected to drop off by 3% which should translate in relative job security for folks in IT.
Sony will be striking red for the first time since 1995. Not good, but I believe there are some hidden strategies at play with Sony who is also in the process (by the look of things) of repositioning. That can only be interesting to see when this entire credit crunch hullabaloo is over and done with. I am also keeping my eye on Dell to see whether their in house credit provisioning service will pay off come the end of this dark tunnel.
Back to Microsoft, a 5000 strong injection into the IT labour market outside of Microsoft cannot be bad for competing companies and new start ups. Surely there must be some talent among them that can do something amazing and give us something new to be amazed at.
Speaking of being amazed, who else is waiting with baited breath for that first reduction in bandwidth pricing? I got momentarily excited when Edgars offered a R28 per 1GB deal to its customers. Nice! Good start, but now it needs to come down to R10 and I will be giddy. Seriously! That would be the threshold to good things in my opinion.
That is it for opinions from the battlefront for today. As I am writing this blog I am sitting in a shop at Hatfield Square (the party paradise for students from the University of Pretoria) looking at the new students walking by and they got me wondering. Where are the laptops? Surely they should be using them by now?!!? Just a thought…
Sony will be striking red for the first time since 1995. Not good, but I believe there are some hidden strategies at play with Sony who is also in the process (by the look of things) of repositioning. That can only be interesting to see when this entire credit crunch hullabaloo is over and done with. I am also keeping my eye on Dell to see whether their in house credit provisioning service will pay off come the end of this dark tunnel.
Back to Microsoft, a 5000 strong injection into the IT labour market outside of Microsoft cannot be bad for competing companies and new start ups. Surely there must be some talent among them that can do something amazing and give us something new to be amazed at.
Speaking of being amazed, who else is waiting with baited breath for that first reduction in bandwidth pricing? I got momentarily excited when Edgars offered a R28 per 1GB deal to its customers. Nice! Good start, but now it needs to come down to R10 and I will be giddy. Seriously! That would be the threshold to good things in my opinion.
That is it for opinions from the battlefront for today. As I am writing this blog I am sitting in a shop at Hatfield Square (the party paradise for students from the University of Pretoria) looking at the new students walking by and they got me wondering. Where are the laptops? Surely they should be using them by now?!!? Just a thought…