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- Sun sells soul for 10 cents more
- Sun sells soul for 10 cents moreThis is a best fit and should have happened long time ago...As explained by Dana Blankhorn in http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4014 (Why is Oracle picking up the Sun mess?), the following single reason is alone good enough to justify this acquisition"This is a defensive move. To quote...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, Middleware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun sells soul, IBM Corp., Sun Sells, Java
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player
- Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java "is the most important software Oracle has...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Larry Ellison, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Oracle planning Patch Tuesday whopper
- Microsoft may be offering a Patch Tuesday respite this month but, if you're an Oracle database administrator, January 13 will be a very busy day. The database server giant announced plans for a monster Patch Day next Tuesday with fixes for 41 security vulnerabilities in "across hundreds...
- Tags: BEA WebLogic, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Portals, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Databases, Internet, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?
- Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval. In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture SOA infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products." ...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Middleware, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?
- Red Hat reported strong fourth quarter results and indicated that it was managing through economic adversity well. More importantly, Red Hat indicated that its JBoss middleware business may be gaining at the expense of Oracle. The Red Hat conference call Thursday relative to Oracle's was an interesting...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Earnings, JBoss, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Sun's planned deal to acquire MySQL will strengthen its open source story
- Sun announced Wednesday that it is buying MySQL for about $1 billion -- $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. The news comes on the same day that mega proprietary database software giant Oracle announced its intent to buy middleware giant BEA. The deal,...
- Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- HP's Mark Hurd: Thoughts on consolidation
- During his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, HP CEO Mark Hurd gave his views on market consolidation. It's an appropriate setting given Oracle has made 41 acquisitions in 45 months totalling. HP is no slouch at acquisitions in its post-Compaq era, with more than 20 in the last few years, including...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation, Mark Hurd, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Intel rolls out new server, high-end PC chip lineup; Green arms race heats up
- Intel has rolled out a new lineup of 16 server and high-end PC processors that sport a new transistor design that saves energy, eliminates lead and halogen materials. These chips were expected and Intel delivered right on schedule. The chips, known as Penryn, is Intel's first to be designed...
- Tags: PC Processor, Performance, Server, Intel Corp., Chip, HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Networking, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- BEA: Will anyone else step up to the buyout plate?
- As expected Oracle yanked its $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems. The big question is where BEA goes from here. The Oracle-BEA saga has been plagued with back and forth letters in recent days. Oracle offered $17 a share for BEA. BEA said it wants $21. Oracle...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Oracle to BEA: $17 per share--take it or leave it
- Oracle responded to BEA's $21 per share price demand, calling it an "impossibly high price for Oracle or any other potential acquirer." Then Oracle gets tough: "Furthermore, no other company has come forward to bid for BEA. Our proposal at $17 per share is the only offer. ...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Board, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Five questions: Oracle's BEA buyout
- Oracle launched and unsolicited $17 a share bid for middleware software maker BEA. BEA responded in a letter arguing that the company is undervalued. In the end, the deal will get done once the haggling ends. But in the meantime, there are a few unresolved questions. Question 1: How...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, IBM Corp., Dana, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- More antitrust tilting
- Clearly, the silt churned up by the European Court of First Instance's ruling last week has not cleared. So much for my promise that last Friday's post would be my last blog on the topic. As reported yesterday, a Brussels-based think tank which goes by the name...
- Tags: Antitrust, Java, Operating System, Manufacturer, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Computer, EC, Globlisation Institute, Corporate Law, Productivity, Operating Systems, Security, Business Operations, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Red Hat delivers middleware stepping stone to larger platform distribution in fall
- Red Hat has cemented another large stone into the foundation of its Enterprise Application Platform EAP 5.0, expected later this year, with the announcement of middleware solution EAP 4.2.EAP 4.2, the company's most comprehensive enterprise platform, weaves JBoss, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single (integrated, tested, and certified) platform...
- Tags: datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Java, JBoss, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...
- Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Is Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list?
- Is Red Hat going to use its Red Hat Exchange to find acquisition targets? Its quite possible. And if thats the case Zimbra and potentially Alfresco will part of Red Hat at some point. That speculation is just one of...
- Tags: General, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Conversation with Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, Scailent
- Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing for Scalent Systems, and I enjoyed a wonderful, rambling discussion of virtualization and what Scalent is doing. The company has developed a new catch phrase, "server re-purposing", to describe their ability to, in their words, Scalents Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE)...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Surprise: Microsoft's DSI is not dead
- In my roundup from December 2006 of Microsoft people, products and strategies that had disappeared, I mentioned Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative DSI as No. 8. I noted: "Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative DSI. DSI isnt dead. But its not exactly alive and kicking, either. After 2005, a year when Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsofts
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
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