Wednesday, May 07, 2003

IBM takes App Server Lead: Oh Really? Today, Gartner announced that IBM has taken the lead in the application server market. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9600108 This press release is topped off by the quote from the Gartner VP: ""The tight horse race that started in 2000 between IBM and BEA was won in 2002 by IBM as they continued to gain market share in all categories of AIM (application integration middleware)," Joanne Correia said."  The report claims that IBM has a 37% to 29% edge, as opposed to BEA's lead last year of 34% to 31%. Um ... okay, if you say so.  Fortunately the reporter talked to some other folks, in particular John Rymer at Giga Group, woops Forrester, to get a more complete picture.  Perhaps next year Gartner will consult Muhammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf  http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/  regarding IBM's market share number. Barron's did a great piece on IBM's "fuzzy math" back in January; a must read for anyone who cares about market share data: http://online.wsj.com/barrons/article/0,,SB1042852269193890944,00.html Perhaps Elliot Spitzer, my own personal hero, should look into industry analysts more, huh? 6:35:03 PM    comment []

"ROLL TIDE" Mike Price has gone through a tremendous amount in the past 7-10 days; you've got feel especially bad for his family, especially his wife. How much of the story is true? Who knows? According to Price, even he doesn't know. The Sports Illustrated story that hits newstands today is pretty amazing / outrageous; see the clip below: http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/2003/0507/1550422.html According to SI, Price left the club at midnight and went back to his hotel. According to one of the women involved, Price engaged "in some pretty aggressive sex" with two women in the hotel. The source told SI that at one point she and her female companion "started screaming 'Roll Tide!' and he was yelling back, 'It's rolling, baby, it's rolling.' " There are some other choice comments including Price's admission that "he was too drunk to remember" what happened at the club. He's got a great repuation and you hope that both he and Eustachy (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thinking/030505/eustachy.html) can recover from these sad events. 5:44:58 PM    comment []