The Friday File
A look back, with a forward glance
Topic
Acquisitions
A collection of 18 issues
Nvidia Continues to Excel, But Some Factors are Beyond Its Control
AI needs greater revenue-generating enterprise demand to keep Nvidia's wheel of fortune spinning
IPO Outlook: OpenAI Looks a Little Like Netscape
You can see why Sam Altman is reluctant to go public
AI Acquihire Deals Benefit a Few at the Cost of Many
There Must Be a Better Way, Especially for Abandoned Employees
In Praise of Extreme Networks
The Magpie Abides
Intel’s Networking Exit Was a Long Time Coming
An Afterthought Inside a Behemoth
Friday’s Reflections, With Feeling
Boardroom Drama at HPE, the Importance of Reading, and Qualified Praise for Voyeurism
Juniper CEO Rami Rahim is Right When He Says the DoJ is Wrong
Did Juniper CEO Rami Rahim reach out to SDxCentral for an interview, or was the approach from the latter to the former? The answer to that question doesn’t negate anything that Rahim said in an article published by SDxCentral, but it would be interesting to know the answer.
HPE
Amid the Purgatory of HPE’s Uncertain Juniper Acquisition
I haven’t paid a visit to the networking neighborhood for a while, partly because networking, while essential as IT infrastructure, seems a little beside the point when the overall industry and the larger world is teetering on the edge of feral madness.
I ask myself, and no longer in
The TikTok Mouse and the Elephant in The Room
We’ve reached a point, here in the fast-moving eddies of the digital era, where snapshots of a given point in the space-time continuum are nearly impossible to capture. Time doesn’t present itself as an orderly sequence of discrete blips, like the ellipses that follow a stray thought, but