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IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis: I recently ran into Drew Clark, head of IBM's Venture Capital Group, based in Menlo Park, California. I asked him about the financial crisis and what IBM could do in response. "We would never make an equity investment but we are looking at financial help in projects where we partner...; Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-10-09
IBM: Beats earnings target but...: IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...; Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-09
Oracle + Primavera: Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-10-08
Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO': Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, "'wantin' and ‘gettin' are two different things". For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...; Tags: M&A, Liquidity, Liquidity Event, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?: The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. According to analyst...; Tags: Job, Economic Downturn, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, IT, employment, Forrester, skills, Tim Ferguson, silicon.com; News items 2008-09-29

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals: Forrester's Marc Cecere has just published a report in which he observes that any downturn in the economy will increase "demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations." As reported in Silicon.com, Cecere predicts that "as organizations look at reducing costs through...; Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation: Following on the recent analyses by my colleague Rob Koplowitz on Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information and Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block: First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace...; Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Dell: Netbooks won't change shape of PC market: Company founder Michael Dell expresses doubts about the netbook form factor and discusses the company's push into services, as well as growing customer interest in green IT. Netbooks are unlikely to change the shape of the PC market, according to Michael Dell. A number of hardware...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Netbooks, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Steve Ranger silicon.com, Dell, Michael Dell, netbook, PCs; News items 2008-09-25
McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...; Tags: John McCain, Obama; Discussion threads 2008-09-24
Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war: Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...; Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-23
McAfee buys CipherTr-- err, Secure Computing: McAfee buys CipherTr-- err, Secure ComputingMerger & acquisitions...Merger & acquisitions is nothing new. Secure Computing is a good match for MacAfee.However about your Sidewider T-shirt, you can use it as an sleep shirt and when it wears out you can use it as an cleaning rag.; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Secure Computing Corp., CipherTr, McAfee Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-09-23
Oracle OpenWorld: Looking for some excitement.: If you're going to kick off a conference these days - that is, when the economy is tanking and people are wondering if the doom-and-gloom is headed for the tech sector - it's probably best to give folks something to buzz about. At Oracle OpenWorld, company president...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Research & Development, Java Development Tools, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Investment, Finance, Software, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-22
Wall Street fallout likely to chill innovation: Usually Silicon Valley floats along inside its own world. You can call it a cocoon or a bubble but its economy is usually separated from the wider world. Obviously, the dotcom dotbomb had a massive effect on Silicon Valley and it took the best part of...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Financial Services Sector, IPO, Venture Capital, Sales Strategy, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Sales, Business Operations, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-09-17
UpTake announces $10,000,000 investment with a new Series B: US-only travel site UpTake just announced $10,000,000 of new investment in a Series B round led by Trinity Ventures and also involving existing Series A investor Shasta Ventures. As I reported back in May when the company entered public beta, they're applying some interesting semantic approaches in...; Tags: UpTake, Investment, Finance, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-09-17
What the credit crunch means for IT: The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here's...; Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Industry, Supplier, EquaTerra, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, economy, IT management, HP, layoffs, hardware, software; News items 2008-09-17
News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-17
Accessing the R&D budget: Rebecca Jacoby, CIO of Cisco, explains why the company spends 10% of its revenue on research and development, and how new acquisitions help them innovate even further. by Andrew Mager; Tags: R&D, Research & Development, Business Operations, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-09-16
Integrating acquisitions: Rebecca Jacoby, CIO of Cisco, explains how IT takes the first steps after an acquisition—streamlining critical processes and ensuring that whatever the new company has brought to the table is put to good use. by Andrew Mager; Tags: Acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-09-16
Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service: A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...; Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-09-13
Whatever happened to CMP?: When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials "CMP" are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...; Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-09-09