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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch Revamps Customer Statements With HP Exstream Software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1102209]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch financial advisors can offer clients a broad range of diversified financial solutions. Listening to feedback from clients, the Merrill Lynch marketing department recognized the value in creating a consolidated "Relationship Statement," with the ultimate goal of demonstrating what is possible from a client relationship with Merrill Lynch. Merrill...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12495]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    All  five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone.    These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:16:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:01:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:13:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9566]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce complexities and costs in financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why ideas old like virtualization have become useful again. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:00:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LinuxWorld: Merrill Lynch on going stateless]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-214540.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce the complexities and costs of financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why old ideas like virtualization have become useful again.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:54:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9553]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CIOs expect their IT spending to be up 2.3 percent in 2008, but PC upgrades, outsourcing and consultants are viewed as the most discretionary items in budgets, according to a survey by Merrill Lynch. Virtualization, storage and labor are among the least likely items to be cut.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:32:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch Creates Development Framework for Increased Productivity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch wanted to better support its application life cycle management to increase developer productivity. It created a process framework using tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and WiX to automate processes and make it possible for developers to use their choice of methodologies. With the new framework,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1026]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:04:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is importantBloombergBased on what I heard at the Salesforce.com event on Tuesday, I don't think that the company is going on a frontal assault on Bloomberg.  It appears that there are plenty of opportunites with 3.8mn Internet savvy financial advisors.  Brokers and traders...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4563]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[        Salesforce.com announced its big enterprise customer--Merrill Lynch--and the news was anticlimactic (everyone knew what was going to happen already.)    While the announcement that Salesforce.com is trying to take on Bloomberg and is rolling out large installations isnt a barnburner...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vista could be a boon for Citrix]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4079]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Vistas hardware requirements got you down? Merrill Lynch is betting that youll call Citrix. In a Dec. 5 research note, Merrill said thin-client software companies like Citrix are likely to benefit over the Vista upgrade cycle."We believe Microsoft&rsquo;s Vista product cycle could drive incremental demand for Citrix&rsquo; core Presentation Server...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:13:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch bullish on Google growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9588-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=22831&messageID=432145&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch bullish on Google growthML has a need here...ML needs to manufacture something to ride...it might as well be GOOG, since the outlook for that is more nebulous than other stocks, which have more easily-predicted futures.  Isn't that similar to Enron...when the business plan and source of revenues...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google says it will run out of people]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=53]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest report from Merrill Lynch, authored by Lauren Fine, GOOG CFO George Reyes spoke at the Merrill Lynch investor conference and said: "importantly, for the first time, Reyes did say that the law of large numbers will likely start to come into play."If you are wondering what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:06:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internet industry IT spending to grow 42% in 2005]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=10119]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch expects further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 bln up from $1.9 bln in 2005. Industry spending on technology will increase 42% YTY, outpacing revenue growth of 29%. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:10:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[B2B e-commerce to grow 20% in Q3 2005]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8377]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch expects business operations on the Web to tally a 20% increase in e-commerce and 14% rise in online travel bookings growth from Q2 2005. The total US commerce and travel spending is expected to be up 6-8% and 4-5% respectively.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:10:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch predicts offshoring growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9595-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=9443&messageID=188042&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch predicts offshoring growthOh yeah ML should know better....I used to work there and they took the idea of offshoring to the extreme: you have to call somebody in India in order to make changes to the database, since they laid off all those "high-priced" domestic DBAs. Way to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:07:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cisco wins back Merrill Lynch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=8077&messageID=163179&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco wins back Merrill LynchAnalysts appraisalAre analysts expectations for company earnings no more than a weather forecast? So if an analyst guesses wrong, then its' the company's fault. Or are we to pretend an analyst hasn't got inside information? In which case they're doubly fooling the public. If an analyst...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:08:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google crosses off Merrill Lynch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-3513-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=3891&messageID=80267&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Google crosses off Merrill LynchGoogle Pizza?With all the trouble that Google is in with spyware software programs and all the lawsuits, maybe they should look in to using the IPO proceeds to start a Pizza business.GooglePizza.com sounds good to me, I can see Larry and Sergey on TV right now...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:02:00 -0700</pubDate>
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