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- A rundown of 'L'affair Microhoo'
- CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber takes a few minutes to highlight the key points in all the corporate maneuvering of Microsoft's would-be acquisition of Yahoo and gives his take on where the failed bid leaves both companies.
- Videos 2008-05-08
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- Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO
- Tim Morse, the former CFO of Altera Corp. and a veteran executive of General Electric, has been named Yahoo's new Chief Financial Officer, effective July 1. Morse takes over for Blake Jorgensen, who resigned shortly after new CEO Carol Bartz joined the company but has stayed on during a transition...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Dell is going shopping: Pondering the data center and services targets
- Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company is likely to spend some of its $10 billion in cash on an acquisition that would give it more of a foothold in the data center or expand its services. The one bright spot of Dell's first quarter was the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Petrochemical Firm Achieves Savings, High Availability With Disaster Recovery Solution
- Honam Petrochemical Corporation HPC produces plastics, synthetics, and basic chemicals and, following mergers with two other companies, was in the process of integrating its various IT infrastructures. With several mail servers in different locations and an increasing volume of e-mail, HPC wanted to simplify management by consolidating its servers and...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Oracle changes tech landscape with Sun acquisition [video]
- Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his thoughts on Oracle's recent $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems. He says Oracle is positioning itself to come in as a one-stop player, complete with business hardware and business software. The deal could also help spur other tech mergers to keep pace with the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Oracle changes tech landscape with Sun acquisition
- Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his thoughts on Oracle's recent $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems. He says Oracle is positioning itself to come in as a one-stop player, complete with business hardware and business software. The deal could also help spur other tech mergers to keep pace with the...
- Videos 2009-04-22
- Unisys has looming debt, credit pickle
- Unisys has looming debt, credit pickleUnisysI went to work at Univac in 1968 and retired from Unisys in 2007. Looking back, the corporation seemed to be in some sort of trouble the whole of my employment and never quite figured out it's proper place in the world. I survived mergers,...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Convergence alert: Keep an eye on the building network tech guys
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...
- When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...Facilitate collaborationCollaboration may be desired but it is difficult to achieve. Many things can hinder collaboration. Three items that hinder collaboration are:- Vocabulary issues, potentially easy to solve- Trust issues are difficult to resolve. Willingness to accept the new contributions from your new...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...
- Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Guest post: Google in talks to buy Twitter (hope) in the shadow of IBM buying Sun (fear)
- Guest post: Google in talks to buy Twitter hope in the shadow of IBM buying Sun fearNonviolenceHi Dennis,Thanks for including my "guest" blog here.I've been thinking a lot about the roots of "violence" in the economy. While radical cost cutting and mass layoffs are a symptom of economic violence--where are...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- Guest post: Google in talks to buy Twitter (hope) in the shadow of IBM buying Sun (fear)
- This guest post is from Miko Matsumura, VP and deputy CTO, Software AG The triumph of hope over fear? Eric Schmidt has had quite an amazing ride since becomingCTO of Sun Microsystems. So has @Ev, Evan Williams who launched the blogging phenomenon...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- When the building’s on fire, who calls an architect?
- No one does. They call the fire department. This year, manufacturers and retailers need more IT fire fighters and fewer enterprise architects. And those fire fighters need axes, ladders and hoses; not enterprise service buses or SOA governance suites. Companies are fighting for their lives and employees...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Social silly season
- I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- The Security Conundrum
- The above xkcd cartoon does a great job of encapsulating the difference between a technology perspective on securing data and the realities of human nature. Keeping information secure is the top priority and responsibility of all IT departments, whether they are running extranets...
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells users
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Shovel-ready SOA
- One the goals of the current economic stimulus plan being prepped in Washington is that it will funnel money into infrastructure projects that will ostensibly be "shovel-ready," meaning they are ready to go and could possibly lead to new waves of hiring. Perhaps we should look at...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- IBM Maximo IT asset management solutions in the financial services industry
- Financial services companies face an array of demanding and ongoing challenges, including global competition, mergers, acquisitions, converging service offerings, and an imperative to build and maintain customer loyalty. At the same time, a growing array of compliance mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II, require financial services companies to...
- White papers 2009-01-28
- An Obama Administration and Sony Comparison
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
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