Google's acquisition of Gizmo5 increases the potential for Google Voice to be built into other Web services, including Google Talk, Gmail or Google Wave by Sam Diaz
3Com has storage switch product?!Does 3Com has storage switch product line? Never heard of this!!RE: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the anteall out war! all out war!
Cisco's painThis will cause Cisco serious pain:http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/11/11/hp-acquires-3com/Another Wal_Mart mega corpWho really cares, these mega-corps paynothing and have crummy benefits.RE: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlookCisco vs HP vs IBM/Juniper/Brocade.Whose gonna come out on top!
HP announced plans to acquire networking company 3Com for an estimated $2.7 billion and raised its guidance for full year revenue and earnings. by Sam Diaz
Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob...
Oracle says today that European regulators have a "profound misunderstanding" of the technologies behind Oracle's acquisition of Sun and that there is no evidence of anti-competitive behavior to hold up the acquisition. by Sam Diaz
Cisco, which has been on a bit of a shopping spree for technology companies lately, announced today that it will acquire Web security company ScanSafe for about $183 million. The deal is expected to close early next year. by Sam Diaz
Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...
Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
Perot PurchaseIt's a brilliant move on two fronts: Service to sell more hardware and subjugation replace HP and IBM with Dell hardware and SANS.Dell once again proves why they outsell HP and IBM 2-to-1 in many market spaces....RE: Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likelyPretty good deal...
Dell's $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems gives the company a better foothold in the IT services market, but it's really just the beginning. Dell's purchase of Perot Systems is a down payment on the company's big plans to transform its business. by Larry Dignan
Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...
Google said today that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs, those squiggly words in a box that you have to type to verify that you are a real person and not a computer bot. The technology is widely used - more than 100,000 Web...
Uh, didn't Sprint and Nextel use "different" technologies?I see the "technology" issue as a short term "problem". No technology seems to have the "killer" superiority so the main issue is portability and wide spread world wide coverage. Even that cannot make up for BAD customer service.RE: Sprint extends...
Sprint said today that it's rolling out new pricing plans for business customers, including the new "Any Mobile, Anytime" offering that it announced for consumers last week. Called Business Advantage, the new offerings are an extension of Sprint's aggressive campaign to lure back customers who left following...
SpectroGL is a software application for Windows 2000 and XP that provides real-time spectrum analysis of sound, using your sound card as the acquisition device. SpectroGL can acquire data on independent audio channels and create 5 different data plots, all updated in real time. SpectroGL can capture data plots into...
BPM and SOATake it from me, there is a rich culture of thinkers at Software AG who see the connection between BPM and SOA and the way in which technology elements can help foster both agendas.As for Jason Bloomberg's comment about the acquisition being "about" vertical expertise, let me comment...
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