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		<title><![CDATA[HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=24328]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing.    Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:30:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The value of enterprise architecture in tough times: report from Open Group (2)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=2490]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Is enterprise architecture the right strategy for tough economic times, or should organizations throw away the deliberative long-term planning to fight more immediate fires?    Here are more dispatches from John Meyer of The Open Group, reporting on the groupâ€™s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, held last week...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:16:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=10519]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:12:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=530]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research.    The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:35:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Convergence alert: Keep an eye on the building network tech guys]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=3891]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those thinking-out-loud posts that I believe will inform many GreenTech Pastures posts to come. Just wanted to direct your attention to a new ad campaign out of IBM this morning that is focused on the role that "smart buildings" will play in the green movement in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:39:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=466]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of theÂ  Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'.    Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:30:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells users]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells usersWith SP1, Vista (64-bit) has been quite nice.Win7 has promise, but having been burned by Microsoft's effective ditching of the promises made for Ultimate (retail, not OEM), I'm going to be hard pressed to upgrade and go through all...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:28:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Obama Administration and Sony Comparison]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=194]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  There are fascinating parallels with the vision and pragmatic realities of rolling out effective corporate collaboration initiatives and the new US leadership's arrival at the White House this week.    The White House has a substantial culture and bureaucracy peculiar to it regardless of its current...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:04:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1227]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[These are times that try banks' souls.Â  Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins.    It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at these organizations in recent years may have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yang out: Justice scrutiny paved the way]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4194]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Some things are clear. If Jerry Yang had merely been doing a lousy job at running Yahoo, there would have been no "mutual" decision that he should step down as CEO. (NYT: "Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:54:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AT&T layoffs, Step 1: Reorganization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=400]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[AT&Tâ€™s move to reorganize itself into four business units is likely a precursor to layoffs, according to sources of GigaOM's Stacey Higginbotham.    AT&T's reorganization comes as the company tries to adjust to our current credit-crunching economic situation, diminishing access line and DSL business and an increased amount...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:40:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=220]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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, â€œ'wantinâ€™ and â€˜gettinâ€™ are two different thingsâ€.    For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:33:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:04:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effect on Yahoo will be debilitating]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In part one of this comment (Febuary 2/08 ) I said:   Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by competitive opportunity, and others largely by management egos and investment bankers hooking for commissions. This seems to be one of the latter: Yahoo was over valued relative to its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 07:29:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Media mergers and acquisitions generated $110 bln in 2007]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13754]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M&A for the media and information industries reached record highs in 2007 with 838 transactions and nearly $110 bln in value for 2007 - up 32% and 79%, respectively, over 2006, according to  Jordan, Edmiston Group. The approximately $50 bln dollar growth in deal value between 2006 and 2007...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:02:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Microsoft reorg week in review]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1104]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart.    Here's another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer and Platform Evangelism DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007). Parthasarathy has led evanglism of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1101]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In what I consider surprising timing, Microsoft announced on January 10 that one of its three corporate presidents, Jeff Raikes, is retiring in September 2008.    Raikes will be succeeded by Stephen Elop, who until today was chief operating officer at Juniper Networks, according to a Microsoft statement....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:00:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another of the Microsoft old guard moves on]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1100]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While the the Microsoft depature upon which most company watchers focused this week was that of Bruce Jaffe -- the former Mergers & Acquisitions Chief  -- another Microsoft veteran is moving on, as well.    Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, is leaving the company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:06:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We'll see more acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2583]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[News from London that Deutsche Telekom may make a bid to buy IT services giant EDS. This is only the opening volley in a forthcoming period of acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors.    I recently suggested that BEA Systems, as it spurns Oracle's initial bid, may...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:13:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP's Mark Hurd: Thoughts on consolidation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6978]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:19:39 -0800</pubDate>
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