Marvell: Storage Market Leadership

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the prequel, I looked at Marvell’s fiscal 2008 financials focusing especially on the company’s expenses. As we move ahead, let me dissect its position in the storage industry in general and the hard disk drive market in particular.

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SM: Do you have all of the project management capabilities as well? BB: We are definitely a lot more than just a bug database. We also show you the features customers are asking for. We can let your customers vote on potential features. When your customer base starts ranking their priorities you gain incredible visibility.

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Marvell: Fiscal 2008 financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my previous article on Marvell, I provided a brief overview of the company strategy and product portfolio. Before we move on to dissect the various business areas, let us take a brief look at the fiscal 2008 financials.

OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 6)

SM: Let’s talk some more about commercial accounts. In a way Subversion is like your Trojan Horse to get into a company! BB: That’s funny! I prefer to refer to it as the thin edge of the wedge! At least that is not as bad as the term viral. I hate it when I hear

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Forbes Column 08: Fund Envy

My new Forbes column, Fund Envy, follows up on the previous one, The Real VCs of Silicon Valley with more on the venture capital industry, and the consistent move of capital and expertise away from true venture capital to money management. And once you have read the piece, apply the formula I offered to the

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Marvell: “A product cycle company”

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author As part of our coverage of the mobile chip vendor space, we looked at Qualcomm, InterDigital, Broadcom and Texas Instruments in great detail. We now move on to another interesting and aggressive fabless semiconductor company – Marvell Technology group. Earlier coverage on Marvell can be found here, here and here.

OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 5)

SM: CollabNet is a commercial company which secures traditional business contracts, right? Companies pay CollabNet versus CollabNet being an OpenSource provider? How does that all work? BB: At one level we are software as a service. We charge for access on a per-user, per-month basis. Over the past few years we have developed our processes

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