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- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from Apple
- For the past few months, writers have been churning out rumors about several new flavors of BlackBerry. Is RIM using careful leaks to beat Apple at its own rumor-fueling game? If you thought iPhone nano rumors were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. ...
- News items 2008-08-15
- EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
- The router market in EMEA continued to grow in Q1 2008. The enterprise router market grew by 8.4% from $933 mln in 4Q 2007 to $1.01 bln in Q1 2008, according to IDC. Compared to Q1 2007, the router market achieved a revenue increase of 15% from $879 mln to...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- An Irregular experience with Oracle
- I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along
- Adobe's second quarter results and third quarter outlook were better than expected. After the market closed Monday, Adobe reported net income of $214.9 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue of $886.9 million. Excluding charges and other items, Adobe's earnings were 50 cents a share, 4...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Sharing your login is a criminal offence
- It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th
- Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- EMEA PC market in Q1 2008
- EMEA PC market in Q1 2008Apple?So does Apple fall into the "Other" category? I'm surprised they wouldn't be listed, even if their number is fairly small, just due to mindshare.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Q1 2008 PC shipments grew 19% in EMEA
- According to IDC EMEA, Q1 2008 PC shipments recorded robust 19% growth compared with Q1 2007. Notebooks continued to drive growth across the region with shipments recording an increase of over 43% year on year, while desktops suffered from the market contraction in Western Europe and declined by 1.7%, boosting...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- EMEA PC market in Q1 2008
- Vendor 1Q07 1Q08 Share 1Q07 Share 1Q08 QTQ Growth Hewlett-Packard 3,777 4,853 19.1% 20.7% 28.5% Acer 2,335 3,622 11.8% 15.4% 55.1% Dell 2,317 2,813 11.7% 12.0% 21.4% Fujitsu Siemens 1,420 1,550 7.2% 6.6% 9.2% Toshiba 984 1,350...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Survey Data - CA
- Towards the beginning of April, I was approached by representatives of CA who wanted me to discuss a then-recent survey about the adoption of virtualization technology. Having conducted numerous studies while I was with IDC, I'm always skeptical when looking at survey data. The results may either be...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Salesforce.com and Google opens more cans of worms
- The world and his dog seem in rapture about the announcement that Google and Salesforce.com have tied the application knot and that they've both effectively become channel partners. Phil Wainewright has the most detailed analysis: Salesforce.com has more than 41,000 customers, including a growing number of large enterprises. It's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise
- Salesforce has just released see all coverage the long-awaited integration of its CRM applications with Google Apps, embedding email, documents, online chat and integrated calendaring directly into its core sales force automation, marketing and customer service applications. I've had advance warning of this move, as [in a paid engagement —...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Enterprise CMS market to grow 12.6% in EMEA by 2012
- The enterprise content management software market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.6% between 2007 and 2012, reaching in 2012 a 55% increase over 2008. The highest growth is expected from the second half of 2008 through 2010,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions
- Dell on Monday gave a preview of its analyst meeting later this week and reaffirmed that it will aim to save $3 billion over the next three years and reduce headcount by 8,800. In fiscal 2009, Dell said it will focus on its consumer, enterprise, notebook, small and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Top 5 EMEA Server Vendors in Q4 2007
- Though IBM managed to retain the top spot in the calendar quarter, HP emerged as the top vendor in 2007 with strong growth of 12.3%, managing to eclipse IBM for the first time on an annual basis since the acquisition of Compaq. HP’s growth in Q4 2007 was strongest in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Windows servers up 12.8% in Q4 2007, Linux up 8%
- x86 servers saw their revenue market share grow from 45.9% in Q4 2006 to 49% in Q4 2007, according to IDC. Sales of Windows and Linux grew 12.8% and 8% respectively. While Unix performance remained strong, growing revenue by 3.1% annually, it is Windows that is now the clear market...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Symantec Deploys NetBackup PureDisk in EMEA
- The Symantec Information Technology group completed the deployment of the NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition to servers located in remote offices across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Asia) in the third quarter of 2007. The implementation of NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition is part of IT's overall Eating Our Own...
- White papers 2008-03-15
- EMEA server market in 2007
- Vendor Revenue, 2006 Share, 2006 Revenue, 2007 Share, 2007 Growth, YTY Hewlett-Packard $5,412 32% $6,078 34% 12.3% IBM $5,604 33.1% $5,580 31.2% -0.4% Sun Microsystems $1,985 11.7% $2,092 11.7% 5.4% Dell $1,309 7.7% $1,508 8.4% 15.3% Fujitsu...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
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