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Why Are the Bees Dying?
June 15, 2007
The reason the bees are dying is linked potentially to pesticides but this is not 100% certain as a new pathogen has also recently been discovered. I have written about the dying bees before -- Bees Gone Wild, Colony Collapse Disorder. Here is more from MSNBC. Now it seems the birds are dying as well. Here is more from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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NXTcomm News
June 15, 2007
Here is some of the latest news coming out of NXTcomm next week. Interesting items worth reading come from Alcatel-Lucent, Aculab, Cisco and the IMS Forum.
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Samsung’s Gateway Play
June 15, 2007
Samsung is no stranger to the world of technology with leading positions in memory chips, televisions and mobile devices to name a few. Recently the company has launched a line of gateways dubbed the Ubigate Intelligent Business Gateway (IBG) series.
The gateways range from the IBG3026 for large offices down to the IBG2006 for small branch offices and have many leading-edge features such as hot-swappable modules, fan and power supply, redundant power supplies and more.
The gateway also has a built-in firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, URL filtering, web application firewall and end-point security.
I met with the company’s charismatic VP of Business Development, Alex Kim who has held positions in the past at 3Com and Spirent. Alex really focused his attention on the four distinct capabilities of the box… VoIP, security, switching and routing.
He went on to say in the mid market he believes a single box is a much better solution than individual solutions. Samsung is certainly ambitious as they want to be the IP mobility convergence leader.
As you would expect, the company will be leveraging its mobility strength to make this vision a reality.
At first Samsung will be selling these products through a data-centric channel and as you might imagine, Cisco is a major competitor. Kim tells me Samsung’s price is lower than Cisco with much better performance.
Where the solution gets very interesting is in future upgrades as Alex shares the future of this product will include a WiMAX module. This is certainly a differentiator.
He want on to say the company is looking for a partner program not just resellers to move boxes through the channel. He emphasized Samsung is financially stable and they will be coming out with more solutions in the future.
This is where he reminded me most networking companies do not have the strength in mobility Samsung has and he is right. Certainly Samsung could become a player in the burgeoning FMC space if they play their cards right.
Samsung is entering a crowded space and I bounced a number of competitive names off Kim… From Allworx to Epygi. Alex knew all of his competitors and he knew lots about each one. I was surprised at the level of detail he had about each company. It was surprising to see someone from such a large company with such intricate competitive positioning in his head. This is pretty unusual.
Even though the space is crowded, Samsung has an established name and leadership who understand where their products fit in the market. This is not necessarily a recipe for guaranteed success but it certainly is some of the main ingredients.
See the press release and latest Ubigate news.
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Safari for Windows
June 15, 2007
I have been hearing some grumblings in the market about Apple’s Safari release and many are saying Steve Jobs is over-optimistic in thinking there will be one hundred million downloads of Safari for Windows. If this browser is indeed is as fast as Apple says and it has less security challenges than IE, it does have a great chance of being a serious browser contender.
Om Malik has some thoughts on why Jobs and company have released this software. He thinks it is a an ease-of-use play where people will see how easy to use the Apple browser is and then feel more comfortable with Macs and then switch to an iMac.
While this could be part of the reason for this new browser, in my opinion there is a single overriding reason for this browser launch.
In a word, web 2.0 and SaaS. You see the browser is becoming a more integral part of our workday. Software as a Service solutions like SalesForce.com really make the computing platform an afterthought.
In fact the browser is becoming the computing platform where web 2.0 applications driven by AJAX and Flash allow us to have virtually the same functionally as local software without the need to install anything.
In the next 5 years this trend will accelerate and although Apple probably should have rolled out its new browser years ago, better late than never.
Oh and one other thought. Imagine how well Safari will integrate with iTunes and Apple TV. I am sure it will be a more seamless experience to use Safari with Apple products and services than IE. If Apple plays its cards right, Safari for Windows could gain serious market share. If the browser hits 25-30% over the next five years it will be very successful.
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WiFi Goes Green
June 15, 2007
Here is an interesting blog post from none other than me :) on TMC’s new green blog. Be sure to click here if you want to learn more about a solar powered municipal WiFi installation.
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