Archive for December, 2006

HP Takes the Lead

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 08 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Business

IBM is no longer the largest IT company in the world. That honour now belongs to Hewlett Packard. Their $92 billion in annual revenues surpassed IBM by about a billion dollars.

At one time, IBM was the leader in the computer industry. They set standards, others followed. The open architecture of their computer systems encouraged other [...]

Over 500,000 WordPress Users

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 04 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Applications

WordPress.com reports 511,000 user accounts. This is a phenomenal growth from the web site’s origins in 2005. There were also over 900,000 downloads of the WordPress software alone that year.

WordPress is by far the largest and most successful self-hosted blogging software in the world. Its better to install the software yourself on your own web [...]

Grow Your Software Business with OISV

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 02 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Business

What is OISV? I have to admin, that until recently I didn’t know what it was myself until I stumbled across it.
Briefly, the Organization of Independent Software Vendors (OISV) consists of thousands of software vendors, marketers, retailers, and distributors who create, supply, and sell software. The membership is worldwide across 90 countries.

Their web site has [...]

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