What we now have is too much focus on short-term revenues and almost no focus on the long-term survival or success of the firm. This is why you don't… - Rob Enderle

Today's tech companies aren't built to last, as Apple's recent earnings report shows all too well.

At scale, [Microsoft] is likely the only company offering a cloud solution that is truly robust enough to be trusted in what has become an incredibly unsafe world.

Chen is not only ahead of Steve Jobs in terms of turnaround speed, he has done something that both HP and Sun failed at: turned a hardware company into a software and services company, arguably something Jobs couldn't have done. ... Jobs smartly decided to kill the process at Apple to transition that company to software and services. Jobs didn't understand how to do that and would have likely failed because he was just a hardware guy.