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Oracle Ropes In Sun January 27, 2010 
Oracle announced on Wednesday the completion of its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At a briefing on its plans, Oracle pledged to reenergize Sun's brand name, products and other assets. Further, Oracle said it will continue its commitment to open systems and Java. "We'll invest in Java One; it'll just go global," Oracle Copresident Charles Phillips said.
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Europe Lets Oracle Add Sun to Its Empire January 21, 2010 
After strenuous deliberations, the European Union's antitrust regulatory authority is giving Oracle's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems a green light. The EU's approval is the culmination of a months-long dispute between Oracle and Europe that threatened the deal's survival.
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Top 8 Enterprise Server Predictions for 2010 January 13, 2010 
Although the enterprise server market has been among the hardest hit by the suffering economy, there is reason to be hopeful as 2009 draws to a close. I'd like to take a moment to share eight predictions of what we can look forward to in 2010 -- trends that have the potential to dramatically change the enterprise in the years to come.
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Putting the Data Center on an Energy Diet December 20, 2009 
Producing meaningful, long-term energy savings in IT operations depends on a strategic planning and execution process. The goal is to seek out long-term gains from prudent, short-term investments, whenever possible. It makes little sense to invest piecemeal in areas that offer poor returns, when a careful cost-benefit analysis for each specific enterprise can identify the true wellsprings of IT energy conservation.
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Ballmer Gives Shareholders - and Dell - Cause for Optimism November 20, 2009 
The early indicators that Windows 7 is doing well seem to be piling up. CEO Steve Ballmer gave that perception a boost at the company's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, announcing that Microsoft "has already sold twice as many units of Windows 7 than any other operating system ever launched in a comparable time." Do the early numbers indicate that Windows 7 may be strong enough to cheer the shareholders of other companies -- namely, battered computer OEMs like Dell?
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Would Palm Buy Scuttle Nokia's Symbian Strategy? November 16, 2009 
Palm had its hands full over the weekend. The company's Sunday launch of its new US$99 Pixi smartphone had to compete with fresh rumors begun Friday that the company was a possible target of a takeover by Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia. Those rumors sent Palm stock soaring by 8 percent on Friday, although Monday's trading was back within normal ranges.
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HP Raises Stakes in Networking Game With 3Com Play November 12, 2009 
HP's $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com is a shot at networking leader Cisco Systems -- and a sign of how old relationships are being frayed by a flurry of maneuvers by technology heavyweights. HP said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $7.90 per share for 3Com, a 39 percent premium to 3Com's closing stock price before the deal was announced.
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IBM, Canonical Put Windows 7 in Their Crosshairs October 21, 2009 
IBM and Canonical have launched a Microsoft-free desktop software suite for U.S. companies, claiming the package will offer substantial cost reductions compared to a Windows 7 migration. Though the IBM Client for Smart Work package was initially designed for emerging markets, it sparked widespread calls for a similar offering in the United States.
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Acer Topples Dell to Claim No. 2 PC Vendor Slot October 15, 2009 
As global PC shipments rose 2.3 percent year over year in the third quarter, Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer took the No. 2 spot in PC sales worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. That pushed Dell into third place; market leader HP, however, maintains its commanding lead. HP accounted for 20.2 percent of PC shipments worldwide in the third quarter, with almost 15.8 million units.
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Stylish, High-Performance PCs Suggest a Sea Change for Dell October 06, 2009 
To fully understand what Dell has accomplished with the Latitude Z and its other new business client offerings, it helps to remember where the company's PC solutions began. For years, Dell emphasized substance and notably aggressive pricing over style, delivering products with solid features and conventional design elements at costs designed to appeal to its core business customers.
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Cisco to Expand Its Video-Conference Room With $3B Tandberg Buy October 01, 2009 
Cisco Systems has made a huge play in the video-conferencing industry, acquiring one of the world's largest makers of such equipment for close to $3 billion. Cisco is acquiring Tandberg for about $26.37 a share in cash -- an 11 percent premium over Tandberg's closing price on the Oslo exchange. The proposal was recommended unanimously by Tandberg's board of directors.
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Ellison: Oracle Hearts MySQL September 23, 2009 
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison can be a wellspring of newsworthy comments. Little wonder, then, that for close to an hour on Tuesday, IT journalists were rapt as he ruminated on the subjects of the day in an interview with Sun Microsystems' Ed Zander at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley.
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The iPhone's Five-Year Plan September 23, 2009 
Demand in companies of all sizes will see the iPhone taking 35 percent of the business market, according to a prediction from Forrester Research. This will be fueled by increased demand for smartphones worldwide. Meanwhile, Apple will continue to innovate and stay ahead of the market, Barclays Capital Research said.
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Bad News for PC Sector Cushioned by Glimmer of Hope July 15, 2009 
Worldwide PC shipments will fall on a year-over-year basis for the first time in nearly a decade, but all signs still point to a late-year tech sector recovery, according to research firm iSuppli. Shipments will fall 4 percent from 2008 sales, to 287.3 million units, the firm predicted. This is the latest -- and perhaps the most optimistic -- of several research reports out lately.
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Dell Drums Up Virtualization-in-a-Box June 18, 2009 
Less than three months after announcing a slew of products and services to propel its thrust into the data center market, Dell on Wednesday released several out-of-the-box virtualization solutions targeting both enterprises and SMBs. These are aimed at simplifying virtualization and helping customers cut their costs.
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IBM Offers Platform for Diving Into the Cloud June 15, 2009
IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management.
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