October has been a busy month for telecoms analysts. There’s been a lot more buzz about Global Crossing, which has announced the purchases of Impsat and Fibernet and is itself the target of some M&A buzz. Taiwanese WiFi and MiMAx leaders D-Link are also continuing their rise, and are posed to enter the top 25…
Europe’s largest analyst firm, Datamonitor, is to purchase Ovum, Europe’s largest technology and telecoms analysts. The deal values Ovum at slightly under $80 million. The news comes shortly after Anthony Parslow, the former Forrester COO in Europe, joined Datamonitor’s Executive Management Committee to oversee acquisitions and operations at the firm. While some of Ovum’s shareholders…
In the top ten of this month’s Software Index, Symantec trades places with Novell but otherwise there is no change. Far more interestingly, Autonomy is the joint highest climber moving up 11 places to number 22. Intuit has also moved up 11 places but it started from a lower position and is presently ranked at…
The “Lighthouse Spotlight” newsletters lunch to the public next week. These are four monthly newsletters that highlight a dozen or so newly published pieces of analyst research that interest us in our four focus areas: Services; Software; Systems, Hardware & Platforms; and Telecommunications & Networking. Lighthouse has just completed our first ‘beta test’ cycle of…
This morning we have returned from Gartner’s Symposium to a shocking sadness. Thorsten Wichmann, co-founder and managing director of the German analyst firm Berlecon Research, has died after a short and serious illness. Dr. Wichmann was a brilliant analyst and a thoughful and sensitive human. We valued our opportunities to speak with him whenever he…
October Systems Index shows little change in the top 5. As could have been predicted IBM maintains the lead followed by Intel. However, further down the chain adjustments seem to be rather exciting. NetApp has pleasantly surprised us this month with tremendous leap of 11 positions in analyst focus, consequently insuring the place in the…
Gartner used the vendor relations meeting here at Symposium to re-emphasize ways in which role-based views aim to improve the usability of its research. This positive message was deflected in the Q&A session, which emphasized vendors’ frustrations with Gartner, as we explain below and in a post to follow. However, even that discussion underplayed the…
Next month the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations is holding meetings in London and Frankfurt. The London IIAR Forum will be on November 2 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Oracle’s City of London office, One South Place. IBM is hosting the third meeting of DARA, the German working group, at its Frankfurt office. The…