Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category
Sun, the little engine that could, has actually made the smartest acquisition of the past few months, but the story has been relegated to page C-14 behind the front-page headlines of the mega-deals being done to bolster mega-egos and little else. Sun’s acquisition of MySQL is one that resonates on every level: technologically, culturally, philosophically. [ READ MORE ]
Given the timing of events, it’s hard not to compare the current Microsoft-Yahoo takeover battle with the recently concluded conquest of BEA by Oracle. Some of the parallels are quite obvious with large, stalwart, traditional software organizations making bids on younger, (some would say) cooler targets in areas tangential to the core of the would-be [ READ MORE ]
BEA is playing a high-stakes poker game right now with Oracle and it appears, at the moment, that Oracle just called BEA’s bluff. Oracle’s $17 per share offer for BEA, a premium of 21% over the pre-offer market price, has expired. Instead of considering the offer and negotiating in good faith, BEA countered with a [ READ MORE ]
Wow! Who woulda thunk it? A tiger can change its stripes. Apple has announced that it is opening the iPhone and iTouch to third-party applications. Yes, believe it. This is the same company that lost the PC wars to Microsoft and Intel because it refused to allow the Mac to be cloned or to license [ READ MORE ]
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