{"id":2771,"date":"2009-06-05T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/06\/05\/numbers-volume-14\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:23:04","slug":"numbers-volume-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/06\/05\/numbers-volume-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Much Does a Cloud Cost: Corporate Welfare Edition<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Apple will spend $1 billion building a major data center in North Carolina<\/b>, the state’s governor announced yesterday after signing a bill that will give Apple an estimated $46 million in tax breaks over the next 10 years<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The company could save more than $300 million in state income taxes if the data center is in place for 30 years<\/b>…. Opponents of the bill have blasted the preferential treatment during a time when the state faces a $4.5 billion budget shortfall<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Long Slog to Gank Office Market Share<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Eighty percent of enterprise customers are still using some version of Microsoft Office<\/b> for worker productivity and collaboration, with only 8 percent using alternatives<\/b>, which include Sun StarOffice, Google Premier Apps, Lotus Symphony and Zoho, according to the report by Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish. The report polled 152 IT decision makers<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

People & Process in New York Are Expensive<\/a><\/h2>\n
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“Using DocPort, if my boss comes to me and says how much does it cost to process an equity in New York, with the detailed information we have, we can easily figure out that it’s costing us $72 to process an equity<\/b>, while in Madrid they can do it for $42<\/b>,” Cardenas says. “We tend to be expensive in New York.” Subsequently, the U.S. office has insourced its operations to the Madrid office \u2014 22 employees in Spain now work remotely for the New York office<\/b> \u2014 and saved $2 million<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Smart Cash<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Apple\u2019s share of [cell phone] industry operating profits went from 3 percent in 2007 to 20 percent in 2008<\/b> and will grow again to an estimated 31 percent in 2009<\/b>. RIM<\/b>, maker of the Blackberry, is doing even better, increasing its estimated share of industry profits from 8 percent (2007) to 19 percent (2008) to 35 percent (2009)<\/b>. So adding those two together, Apple and RIM are expected to account for an incredible 66 percent of industry profits this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Java, Coast-to-Coast<\/h2>\n

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