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Sparks Already Flying as Oracle Brings Hurd Into Fold
2010-09-07T12:24:35-07:00
Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP who resigned in disgrace last month, has joined Oracle as co-president. At the same time, Charles Phillips, co-president and a member of Oracle's board of directors, has resigned. Hurd will serve alongside Co-President Safra Catz. Wall Street investors are excited about the move: Oracle's shares were up by 5 percent on Monday morning following the news.
VMworld: 7 Years Without a Glitch
2010-09-07T05:00:00-07:00
First a caveat: As part of my work, I attend a lot of IT vendor conferences and high-tech trade shows. Objectively speaking, most shows provide the means to literally and figuratively peek under the hood of usually interesting, sometimes intriguing vendor products and solutions. But conferences also provide an ideal opportunity to consider how much buzz a given vendor or technology is generating.
Teaching Sales and Web Strategies to Sing in Harmony
2010-09-07T05:00:00-07:00
Consider the left hand of sales methodology and the right hand of digital strategy. It's 2010 and the two hands still do not know what the other is up to. Even with the most advanced of our clients, the digital strategy is focused on lead generation, awareness and a bevy of other activities aimed at the top portion of the sales funnel, traditionally owned by marketing.
Building a Cloud Businesses Will Actually Want to Use
2010-09-04T05:00:00-07:00
We've assembled a panel to examine the business impact of cloud computing, to explore practical implementations of cloud models, and to move beyond the hype and into gaining business paybacks from successful cloud adoption. Coming to you from The Open Group Conference in Boston, the panel tackles such issues as what stands in the way of cloud use, safe and low-risk cloud computing, and working around inhibitors to cloud use.
HP's Wallet-Busting Win
2010-09-03T09:58:58-07:00
The insane tug-of-war between Dell and HP for enterprise storage company 3Par has finally drawn to a close. We have a winner, if you want to call it that -- the final sale price is more than double the figure Dell initially put forward when it announced its intentions to buy 3Par a couple weeks ago, so who knows how much of that is real value and how much is just financial one-upsmanship.
Making Change Happen Every Day: Q&A With GSA's David McClure
2010-09-03T05:00:00-07:00
The U.S. government spends $80 billion annually on information technology. The U.S. General Services Administration is directly involved in nearly 25 percent of federal IT procurement activities through its Schedule 70 acquisition program, including nearly $9 billion directly for information technology investments. GSA has emerged as a leader in guiding federal investments for information technology.
Marketers, Let's Get Personal
2010-09-03T05:00:00-07:00
On Aug. 13, IBM and Unica Corporation announced they had entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica, a leading provider of marketing software solutions that focuses on streamlining marketing program development, execution and management to achieve improved marketing effectiveness.
3Par Sale Frenzy Ends With HP the Presumed Winner
2010-09-02T11:29:32-07:00
HP has won the bidding war it waged with Dell for data-storage company 3Par, whose shares were trading at $9.65 when Dell first tried to acquire it in mid-August. Dell decided not to match HP's $2.4 billion ($33 per share) offer, which topped Dell's bid of $32 per share. Dell first tried to acquire 3Par with an $18 per share offer on August 16, which 3Par initially accepted.
Intel, Infineon and the Winds of Change
2010-09-02T05:00:00-07:00
Intel has focused solely on the computer business for so long, we forget it can pursue other avenues of growth as well. Tomorrow, all our devices will be connected and talk to each other and share information. In that new world, Intel has been looking around for another business to acquire to help expand its reach, and it chose Infineon.
Do E-Readers Spell the End of Print Media?
2010-09-02T05:00:00-07:00
Recently, library chief Helen Josephine of Stanford University's Engineering Library said that the students' search through volumes of books to get to a formula that they want is basically at an end because "with books being digitized and available through full text search capabilities, they can find that formula quite easily."
