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by Scott Wilson on January 18, 2010
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft announced last week that they are partnering up and investing $250 million over the next three years to "...significantly simplify technology environments for busin...
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by Scott Wilson on January 13, 2010
So I was one of those under a rock yesterday when Google brought to light news that it had been attacked (most likely by the Chinese government, although this was not explicitly stated) in efforts t...
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by Scott Wilson on November 16, 2009
I don't know if you want to make this into a meta-pattern or what, but Google again seems to be stepping up where Microsoft has stumbled, today hiring laid-off business development director of Microso...
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by Scott Wilson on November 11, 2009
Hewlett-Packard has been making hard choices over the past year but the aggression seems to be paying off. The EDS acquisition has become the most profitable part of the company, market share has hel...
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by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2009
When I saw this post at the Seattle PI this morning I was all ready to get up and watch the show as the pack of wolves materialized baying for Steve Ballmer's head. On the heels of a similarly negati...
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by Scott Wilson on October 19, 2009
The New York Times has published a scathing critique of Microsoft's current status and prospects, marking a new low in the prevailing conception of the company's chances as the industry spins slowly o...
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by Scott Wilson on September 28, 2009
Not to be outdone by Dell and HP, Xerox too has decided to build its portfolio of managed services options with an outside acquisition. The company announced today its plans to purchase Affiliated Com...
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by Scott Wilson on September 23, 2009
Or so HP is signaling with their announcement today that the EDS division, acquired last year, is to be re-named HP Enterprise Services.
HP has reaped dividends from the acquisition in very little ti...
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by Scott Wilson on September 21, 2009
In the latest bid by a major hardware manufacturer to buy its way into the services market, Dell has announced the acquisition of Perot Systems for $3.9 billion. This comes on the heels of numerous ...
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by Scott Wilson on May 28, 2009
Despite the across-the-board pay cuts HP CEO Mark Hurd made (and I lauded) two months ago, the latest quarterly results have proven disappointing and the outlook no better, leading the company to anno...
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by Scott Wilson on May 8, 2009
My apologies for two Microsoft posts in a row; yeah, they are starting to bore me too. But CIOs can't afford to ignore the prospects of the 800 pound gorilla in the industry.
There is this meme g...
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by Scott Wilson on April 20, 2009
Oracle has announced this morning that it will acquire Sun, putting an unexpectedly quick capstone on what could have been another interminable walk through the desert after the Sun/IBM deal fell thro...
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by Scott Wilson on April 6, 2009
This time it's IBM and Sun instead of Yahoo and Microsoft (although Yahoo and Microsoft haven't gone away yet, much to my annoyance). What is up with these companies? Just roll over and be acq...
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by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2009
This morning reveals that the rumored and expected layoffs at Microsoft have in fact materialized. In the wake of disappointing 2Q revenue results which missed company estimates by $900 million, the c...
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by Scott Wilson on December 29, 2008
It's no secret that times are tough in tech, but the industry's top dog has been consistently optimistic about its own situation. Microsoft has publicly stated that it will continue to grow ...
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by Scott Wilson on December 17, 2008
All the buzz today in the blogosphere is about Apple's calculated dissing of the Macworld Expo, a traditional venue for Steve Jobs keynotes announcing new Apple products or initiatives. Senior VP ...
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by Scott Wilson on November 5, 2008
I don't think this really has many implications for CIOs to worry about, but since I've been half-heartedly following it in this blog up till now, I thought I should probably put the capstone ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2008
There is an article in the Seattle Times this morning discussing the ongoing regulatory fight over the Yahoo-Google deal, a fight which the reporter points out would probably never have happened witho...
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by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2008
At a new, low, low price, no less!
Actually the company denies that it is interested in Yahoo again, even as it works to derail the Yahoo/Google partnership. But Ben Romano at the Seattle Times has a...
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by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2008
It's that time of year again; Gartner's annual ITXpo is underway in Orlando and the juicy tidbits are coming out from those bloggers lucky enough to be in attendance. I am not among them. Jaso...
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by Scott Wilson on October 3, 2008
Microsoft released this statement from General Counsel Brad Smith on the economic bailout package passed and enacted today:
Congressional passage of the financial recovery package is a critically impo...
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by Scott Wilson on September 30, 2008
I certainly hope we don't see many more articles in this vein coming out, which suggest that Information Technology may bear some of the blame for the current market crisis. The post, by the usual...
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by Scott Wilson on September 29, 2008
As it seems inevitable that we are going to have a significantly down market at this point (previous prognostications over the sustainability of IT in recession or low growth economy are obviously rig...
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by Scott Wilson on September 25, 2008
I think the recent release of Google's Chrome browser has opened a lot of eyes to Google's ambitions to break into the enterprise software market... an ambition that has been questioned on gro...
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by Scott Wilson on August 27, 2008
Hewlett-Packard's bid to purchase it services company EDS, initiated in May, has finally born fruit after clearing regulatory hurdles in both the US and EU.
One of the largest mergers in the indu...
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by Scott Wilson on July 23, 2008
Microsoft has just announced the departure of Platforms and Services division president Kevin Johnson and the reorganization of the division into two new business units, Windows/windows live and Onlin...
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by Scott Wilson on June 24, 2008
If you have half an eye on the markets today, you've probably noticed Yahoo stock going up like a roman candle again, on the strength of rumors that *shudder* the Microsoft deal to purchase the co...
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by Scott Wilson on June 20, 2008
In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 16, 2008
On cue, Senator Herb kohl, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee's Anti-Trust sub-committee, has stepped up to the podium and announced that the group will be rushing to scrutinize the impending ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 13, 2008
Did anyone coin that yet? Am I the first? I don't know who came up with the whole "Microhoo" thing but I am sure they got their fifteen minutes of fame and I hope to emulate their monume...
