The company that just loves to buy
snapped
up
a maker of project-management software this week.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20080 comments
This
looks primarily like a European play (or Europlay, we suppose) for Symantec.
The purchase price came out to $695 million, or approximately 35 Euros plus
change. (Just kidding -- we hope.)
Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20081 comments
Whatever UC
actually
is
, everybody wants to be a part of it. And everybody, especially Microsoft,
wants to offer Software as a Service, too. Microsoft and a company called BroadSoft
teamed up this week to combine the two hottest areas (along with virtualization,
but that's another topic altogether) in technology, announcing a
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20080 comments
It's the story that never goes away -- although lots of people wish the operating
system would. Vista is back in the news, or, more specifically, XP is back.
The beloved operating system got
another
stay of execution
this week, as Microsoft essentially announced that it
would allow OEMs to "downgrade" users to XP for six months longer
than planned.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20081 comments
AMD won't be fab -- or, more precisely,
have
fabs
-- much longer.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20081 comments
This just makes a lot of sense if you think about it, or even if you don't.
Why let a bunch of other vendors make a bundle on business intelligence applications
that are mainly centered on your database when you can
build
the stuff in yourself
?
Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20080 comments
OK, we get the point here. Microsoft is saying that using pirated software
could
lead
to huge problems
-- of the technical, and not just legal, kind.
But the deck of this story made us chuckle a little bit: "Company-sponsored
report says counterfeits lead to system failures, lost data." Wait, doesn't
using a legitimate copy of Windows lead to that stuff?
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments
The launch was kind of, sort of last month, but the product's out there today.
Go figure. Anyway,
here's
the press release.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments
It's so hard letting go. All the money, all the memories, all the good times -- it's
hard to think of them as things of the past. Just look at Microsoft. Cloud computing
is here, and the old operating system and productivity suite are becoming less
and less relevant all the time. But Microsoft just can't let them go.
OK, most of that last sentence was a massive overstatement -- but we got
your attention, right? We know that Windows isn't going to be obsolete any time
soon, if ever. And Office is likely to be the suite of choice for the masses
for at least a few more years to come.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments
Somewhere between helping companies more easily retrieve long-buried data and
seeing its vendors get snapped up by tech giants, business intelligence (BI)
technology got expensive...and complicated. Kalido and its partners are out
to take BI back, in part by moving it online.
"It's been very difficult for companies to get enterprise-wide adoption
of BI tools because the infrastructure required to support them is very heavy,"
said Bill Hewitt, Kalido president and CEO, in a phone chat with RCPU this week.
Hewitt was referring specifically to business intelligence applications from
Business Objects and Cognos, the two main market players, which were recently
snapped up by software titans SAP
and IBM,
respectively.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 01, 20081 comments
What we like about this company is...well, it's based in Biarritz. That's
the
Biarritz, as in the seaside resort in the southwest of France. Mmm, Biarritz.
Anyway,
here's
the PDF of the press release.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 01, 20080 comments