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- Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or joint venture?
- Microsoft last week registered a limited liability company LLC in Delaware stoking speculation that it is planning an acquisition or joint venture. If true Microsoft may be planning a little bit more than a demo of its search engine and a big ad campaign to promote it. ...
- Tags: Acquisition, Search Engine, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Katherine Egbert, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
- Despite a bevy of questions---looming competition from Oracle, takeover rumors and a weak economy---Red Hat appears to be humming along, according to Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert. But in the long run, Red Hat will have to be subsumed into a large company---most likely IBM. In a research...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Katherine Egbert, IT Game, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?
- Microsoft inked its third Linux interoperability deal as the third version of General Public License nears the finish line. Will Red Hat fall in line soon?Microsoft today announced an interoperability deal with Linspire and the pact reads roughly like the one it has with Xandros. As we all know Microsoft...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Open Source, Novell, Microsoft, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Analyst: Red Hat doesn't sweat Microsoft-Novell, Oracle
- Red Hat has its share of battles: Microsofts partnership with Novell to distribute SUSE and Oracle targeting Linux support. But four months after these alleged Red Hat killers launched they have yet to land a body blow. Thats the conclusion...
- Tags: General, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
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- Symantec: Corporate customers moving to shorter contracts
- Symantec's fiscal first quarter fell short of expectations as corporate customers opted for shorter-term maintenance and license renewals. The company, which makes security and storage software, reported first quarter net income of $73, million, or 9 cents a share, down from $172 million, or 20 cents a...
- Tags: Revenue, Symantec Corp., Non-GAAP Revenue, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- XP to Windows 7 handoff expected to boost PC sales
- The bandwagon of folks hoping for a big Windows 7 PC replacement cycle is beginning to fill up. This time, Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert is expecting users to jump from XP to Windows 7 as companies replace long-in-the-tooth desktops. As noted previously, technology executives are expecting a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Sales, Egbert, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Microsoft: The four elephants in the room
- Microsoft's fiscal third quarter results will be notable on four fronts: Potential layoffs, the impact on weak PC demand, the effect of netbooks and how Windows 7 may impact the June quarter. Wall Street is expecting Microsoft to report third quarter earnings of 39 cents a share...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprised
- When former Delta Airlines chief operating officer James Whitehurst takes over as CEO of Red Hat on New Year's Day he'll face the worst kind of doubters--the quiet ones. But Whitehurst could very well take Red Hat to the next level. Aside from the blogosphere Techmeme, you won't hear...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Szulik, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- BEA faces rough crowd
- BEA Systems reported better than expected third quarter results, but all the company got was skepticism about the way it came up with its earnings tally, hackles about its software license growth and questions on why the company thinks it is worth $21 a share. Simply put,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Analyst, Outlier, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Analysts call Oracle's virtualization bluff
- Oracle on Monday announced its own server virtualization software and claimed it was three times more efficient than rival products. VMware shares were whacked on the news. What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday, analysts called Oracle's virtualization announcement "virtual FUD" and noted it was reminiscent to the company's...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Oracle Corp., VMware Inc., Xen Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Linux, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- 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
- T'ubuntu or not t'ubuntu: Ellisonix (or should that be Oraclix) to be based on Ubuntu?
- Just before the weekend, Network World's Jennifer Mears connected a bunch of dots that make it seem like it isn't a question of if, but rather, just when Oracle announces that it will offer a soup-to-nuts stack of software that not only includes the Linux operating systems, but one that...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Larry's "Ellisonix" on the way?
- According to Ashlee Vance, Oracles own distribution of Linux isnt too far off: Wall Street continues to drool over the idea of Oracle producing its own line of Linux software for reasons unclear to us....Last week, Jeffries & Co analyst Katherine Egbert fired off a research note,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Red Hat profit tumbles 34 percent
- Red Hat profit tumbles 34 percentI like Linux...but...You're still wrong about this one:"2) IBM, Ford & GM have posted staggering losses in the past and goodness me - they're still here and still dominating their industry sectors."Ford and GM are not dominating anything at the moment...they're both trying to figure...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Toyota Motor Corp., Linux, Red Hat Inc., Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Novell to chop 600 jobs
- Novell to chop 600 jobsBrilliant move...Switching focus to Linux will just kill this company once and for all. The SCO lawsuit will take care of that. Now that NetWare is dead and Linux is on life support, Novell will be thrown to the scrap heap of IT history. Another company...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows NT, job, Novell Inc., Novell NetWare
- Discussion threads 2005-11-02
- Red Hat offers software warranty
- Red Hat offers software warrantylooking up for SCOi bet Darryl Macbride and Paul Allen have already booked the 10M legal defence fund as the next quarters revenue for SCO.Why would anyone deal with this?I don't understand why anyone looks at Open Source at all. With my Microsoft Licensing 6.0 agreement,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Web servers, UNIX, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Web server, Linus, IBM Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2004-01-20
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