Nick on IT

Mitel buys Polycom, Quo Vadis Cisco Call Manager?

2016-04-21T08:35:00.000+03:00

Its been a while since i last posted on this blog - but i just had to write about the Polycom Mitel merger. Mitel bought a great brand at a great valuation, well done to Mitel. But enough about that.hat astonishes me most is that Cisco didn't buy Polycom at that price. After all, it gives them enterprise customers, video conferencing technology. It gets them right into the heart of the

Microsoft Re energized with Satya Nadella

2014-10-11T09:14:00.000+03:00

Watching Microsoft this year i have seen a massive change - new CEO Satya Nadella has managed to re-energize the company, clearly focusing it on PRODUCT. Good marketing, sales, product support and investor relations are nice to have, but first and foremost a companies CEO should be working on the products it sells. Doing just that - Satya Nadella has managed to reenthuse its customers,

Microsoft marries Nokia, finally!

2013-09-03T12:08:00.001+03:00

Ballmer and Elop finally get it together and have announced that Microsoft will be buying Nokias mobile phone business. The deal comes at a time that Steve Ballmer is stepping down as CEO. Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO and ex Microsoft, under fire by Nokia shareholders for focusing too much on Microsoft technology, looks set to become the new Microsoft CEO. The Microsoft purchase is an obvious

HP stops VCX (formerly 3com NBX) VoIP PBX line

2012-08-02T08:51:00.001+03:00

It’s been announced some time ago and widely expected, but recently HP finally pulled the plug on its VoIP PBX product, HP VCX. This product had received little investment over the last few years and had dwindling sales, so who cares? Well there is still a significant amount of customers out there that run the platform and made major investments into it. As it’s a proprietary platform,

Acunetix WebsiteDefender released

2012-06-06T09:50:00.001+03:00

Two years of work has come to fruition with the release of Acunetix WebsiteDefender – a service to secure your website against hackers and malware. Where as Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was designed for companies that have custom web applications, WebsiteDefender was designed to help smaller companies that use “out of the box” web applications keep their websites secure.

Facebook is the next Google

2012-05-27T08:43:00.000+03:00

I have been quietly collecting Facebook shares in the past few days. At $31 – 32 they are reasonably priced. Never mind how the IPO went. Yes, at $38 the shares were a bit expensive, but then Facebook is no ordinary company. Facebook is a big thing. Bigger then Google was ten years ago when it went public. In number of users, Facebook is the third biggest country in the world.

Micosoft – Server OS maker par excellence

2011-10-08T18:18:00.004+03:00

Microsoft gets a lot of flak for its many lame products. It’s difficult to decide which is the lamest of all. The Me too Windows Phone, the pathetic Bing or the “so NOT “ Microsoft Live? Or maybe the Windows desktop OS? Its on death row, its head neatly greased, and waits happily and patiently to be executed - even though it will take years. And Microsoft Office can now be DONE online, but cant

HTC Wildfire S frees me of iTunes

2011-09-16T07:45:00.007+03:00