Dell regains its third spot in this month’s Systems Index which has been relatively stable. The top ten firms are virtually identical to those topping last month’s chart and, unusually for any of the Indexes that we publish, there hasn’t been a single new entrant into the top 25. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo leapt six spots in…
The big service companies’ profile in analyst research remains pretty much as last month. Accenture tops the pile with EDS second and CSC third. More interestingly, Wipro snuck in to the top ten in December. This is no doubt in part due to its announcement of a strategic partnership with ITV to develop a platform…
In this month’s Telecoms Index, the top three places are occupied by Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, which is a re-run of last month. Cisco has moved up one spot into fourth position and Verizon has increased its share of voice by two places to claim fifth spot. Lucent also deserves a mention as it has…
Microsoft retains its much favoured top spot in this month’s Software Index, ahead of Oracle, SAP, CA and Google. Red Hat enters the top ten, pushing Sybase into twelfth position. MySQL has been very active this month teaming up with NitroSecurity to announce that they will jointly develop a database engine for MySQL based on…
Dell has been edged out of its prized third place by Fujitsu in our December Services Index. AMD has moved up two places into sixth position. However, this is at the expense of both Sun Microsystems and NEC who have been downgraded to seventh and eighth spot respectively. Despite persistent rumours of job cuts at…
Following its global analyst conference in New York and the long awaited opening of its fourth technology lab in Bangalore, Accenture stays top of the Services Index this month. EDS is second. HCL had a good month increasing its share of voice by four places and just missing a top ten spot. Tata and Keane…
It has been a great month for Vanco. Since publishing some very respectable half-year results late in September, Vanco has entered Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Pan-European NSPs. Its “asset light” VNO model is beginning to show some fabulous returns, according to its CEO and founder Allen Timpany. Of course, this is not the only reason…
The top ten companies in the Software Index invariably include BEA, CA, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and Symantec. This month is no exception. Tenth position, however, is occupied by a newcomer. For some fun, send us a postcard telling us who you think holds tenth position. The winner gets a post card back…