Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Applied Materials: The Next Tech Layoffs?
In a development that only Scrooge and the Grinch would find amusing, the tech industry has entered into a fevered period of pre-holiday job cuts.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Ellison: Oracle Won’t Be Seventh in Services
Many big tech hardware makers are expanding into services. Hewlett-Packard last year bought Electronic Data Systems; Dell agreed last month to buy Perot Systems; and Xerox cut a deal for Affiliated Computer Services, also last month.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Oracle May Spin MySQL to Win EU Okay for Sun Deal, Analyst Says
In order to win European Union regulatory approval for the pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle may need to spin-off or sell Sun’s MySQL open-source database business, according to analyst Trip Chowdhry, of Global Equities Research.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Khosla Ventures’s Take on Tech
Venture-capital firm Khosla Ventures announced Tuesday that it had raised more than $1 billion in two new funds–the first time the firm has raised funds from outside investors instead of just investing the money of its founder, Vinod Khosla, a longtime venture capitalist and a founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is putting two thirds of the money towards clean technology investments. But what about tech?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Oracle Strikes Again, Buys GoldenGate Software
The Oracle acquisition machine struck again Thursday, as the software giant snapped up GoldenGate Software, a closely held company whose products help businesses tie together data stored in different systems.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
SAP to Stick to Software, Says CEO
SAP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker says the software giant will focus on its core software business, even as its rivals expand beyond their traditional boundaries.
The latest trend in the tech industry–at least among its biggest companies–is to offer products and services that used to be provided by partners.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Oracle: Is The Street Ignoring The Risks In The Sun Deal?
Oracle shares actually have gained ground since the company announced its plans to acquire Sun Microsystems thanks in part to the company’s promises to make the deal rapidly accretive to earnings. But in their enthusiasm for the deal, investors may be ignoring some significant risks.
Oracle-Sun Changes the Tech Game
Oracle pounced on Sun Microsystems a week ago, agreeing to buy the battered server maker for $5.6 billion, excluding Sun’s cash.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sun Micro FY Q3 Revs Miss Big; No Wonder They Sold
Business at Sun Microsystems continues to, well, stink.
For the fiscal third quarter ended March 29, the server, storage and software company posted revenue of $2.614 billion, down 20 percent from a year ago, off 18.8 percent sequentially, and well short of the Street consensus of $2.86 billion.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Getting Used to the Silence from Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems will issue its quarterly financial results on Tuesday afternoon, right on schedule, despite the looming takeover by Oracle. But Sun won’t hold a conference call; the company says it plans to simply post a press release and associated financial slides on its Web site.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Oracle-Sun: Whither MySQL?
As investors and analysts digest this morning’s Oracle-Sun news, some are wondering what will happen to Sun-owned MySQL, and whether combining the Oracle and MySQL database businesses would represent an antitrust concern.
Oracle To Buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50/Shr In Cash
In a stunning turn of events, Oracle this morning announced perhaps its most aggressive acquisition yet, agreeing to acquire Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or $7.4 billion. Net of balance sheet cash and debt, the deal is worth $5.6 billion. The news follows the reported recent collapse of talks between IBM and Sun.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Virident Validates New Strategy for Start-Ups
There’s a hot formula for hardware start-ups these days: Take standard components that are declining steadily in price, and offer proprietary chips and software that make them work much better.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
IBM-Sun: Do They Have a Deal? Does It Matter?
On Monday, the markets started to question whether International Business Machines and Sun Microsystems will really get a deal done.
It was on March 19 that The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM was in talks to acquire Sun Micro. But it wasn’t until Monday that stock prices of the two companies really started to diverge, a sign perhaps that traders suddenly believed the deal could be endangered.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Another Reason Carol Bartz Joined Yahoo: $$$
When I talked the other day with Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt and a former colleague of new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at Sun Microsystems, he said he was initially surprised she would take on such a demanding job. After all, she stepped back from being CEO of Autodesk to be executive chairman, seeming to head toward relative retirement.
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