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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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- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Will the Palm Pre come to Verizon? Analysts debate
- Do any of you realize that analysts get paid to GUESS about things?So here we have a bunch of idiot analysts GUESSING what might, or might not, happen regarding Verizon and the Palm Pre. Give me a break.It's like the report I heard in Bloomberg TV the other morning. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely
- HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy
- The European Union is justifiably investigating whether Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun -- and its subsidiary MySQL -- will lead to reduced competition and higher prices in the database market. Of course it will, and that's part of the reason European regulators are taking a hard look...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us
- My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System
- Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business areas due to mergers and acquisitions and reduce the amount of manual work both in external and internal reporting,...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Data Quality Considerations for a Master Data Management Structure
- Companies acquiring companies. Human Resources sharing information with Finance. Businesses spanning multiple countries. What do all of these scenarios have in common? The sharing of data. What is the critical need shared by all of these scenarios? Data management. Master Data Management, to be exact. In today's business environment, mergers...
- White papers 2009-08-24
- Where's the disruption from the Internet?
- After leaving the Financial Times in mid-2004 to become a professional "blogger/journalist" I began to think intensely about the nature of media and its changes. Coming from the old world and now jumping into the deep-end of the new world, it triggered some very interesting insights into the nature of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- How long can Apple dodge the antitrust bullet?
- huh?I do not believe that your equivalence chart actually puts apples to apples. Third party software does not need to be approved before it is sold. OEMs dont need to have their software approved by microsoft before they install it. Way to attempt to make an argument...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Will all the good open source companies be acquired?
- Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Are Silicon Valley VCs killing innovation?
- There is a growing imbalance in terms of the risk/reward ratio between venture capital firms and entrepreneurs. And the current economic situation is making things worse. Very little funding is happening. VC firms do have funds but they are focused on trying to keep portfolio companies alive....
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Management Magnified: Strategies for Revenue Growth in an Economic Downturn
- At first glance, the global economic crisis, which began in the US financial sector, does not seem propitious for growth. Indeed, a survey on decision-making conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in May 2009 indicates that as demand for products and services dropped, a majority of companies cut spending and...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Galam Ltd. Streamlines Manufacturing Processes and Improves Business Intelligence Reporting
- Galam Ltd. wanted to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution that can manage the company's rapid growth, support mergers and acquisitions, and streamline international expansion and eliminate manual data processing from multiple sources to improve decision making. The challenge was to improve business processes and control over business information....
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- The value of enterprise architecture in tough times: report from Open Group (2)
- 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 group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, held last week...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- How to Get a Job Fast (Mobile)
- In today's unpredictable economy, the idea of job security with any company would seem to be a thing of the past. Large company layoffs, golden handshakes, mergers, leveraged buyouts, company acquisitions and similar business moves have left people of all ages out of a job they need to live. While...
- Software downloads 2009-07-11
- To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- How to Get a Job Fast (Mobile)
- In today's unpredictable economy, the idea of job security with any company would seem to be a thing of the past. Large company layoffs, golden handshakes, mergers, leveraged buyouts, company acquisitions and similar business moves have left people of all ages out of a job they need to live. While...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- 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
- Engineering Services Firm Saves Three Days a Week With Simplified Web Site Management
- WorleyParsons, a provider of professional services to the energy, resource, and complex process industries, has grown substantially through a series of mergers and acquisitions. To best reflect its international presence, and to be able to publish information in a timely manner, the company had to replace its outdated Web site....
- Case studies 2009-06-01
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