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PeopleSoft Requests Interviews With Oracle Execs
With a request filed to the Alameda County Court earlier this week, PeopleSoft Inc. is embarking on the first wave of depositions in its suit against Oracle Corp. Fending off a hostile takeover bid from Oracle launched this past June, PeopleSoft filed suit against Oracle in an effort to remedy what it says is “substantial…
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Learn to dominate your market niche
OK. So maybe you’re not seeking total world domination, just domination of your world–your market niche. TWD Central has the strategies to get you there. Take a cue from the lesson books of Ziff Davis Channel Zone’s marketing and management specialists. An IT Guide to Market Dominance Don’t let your offering become a commodity with…
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Veritas Buys Ejasent for $59 Million
Targeting improved application virtualization capabilities, Veritas Software Corp. on Wednesday announced it had reached agreement to purchase Ejasent Inc. as part of a $59 million all-cash transaction. The sale is set to be completed by the end of the month. Veritas said it plans to beef up its utility computing cache by adding Ejasent’s UpScale…
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Contract Watch: Big Consultants Put on Notice
It took Pete Rose 14 years to come clean and admit that he bet on baseball. Unlike Rose, IBM Corp. took a matter of months to uncover and admit its own wrongdoing. Big Blue has fired three executives who were allegedly involved in a bribery scandal within IBM’s Korea unit. The computing giant since November…
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Apple’s Jobs Intros G5 Xserve
Addressing a performance gap between Apple Computer Inc.’s server line and its desktop models, CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday cut the ribbon on Macworld Expo San Francisco with a PowerPC G5 version of the company’s Xserve rack-mounted server. Jobs also ushered in a new Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office and introduced a smaller…
