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Europe May Save Oracle from Sun Deal
Oracle says it will “vigorously oppose” a European Commission ruling that its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems would dampen competition and technology development by putting the MySQL database in the hands of its primary rival. The strong language aside, some solution providers and vendors around Silicon Valley are speculating that this is precisely the…
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Web Application Vulnerabilities Rise, Customers Still Ignore Them
The number of Web application vulnerabilities shot up by 10 percent during the first half of 2009 compared to the last half of 2008, according to a new report released today by Cenzic. The report pulled together analysis of data compiled from customers using Cenzic’s ClickToSecure, an application security assessment and penetration testing managed service,…
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SMB Customers Embrace Managed Services
New data from AMI-Partners confirms earlier studies that North American SMBs not only want managed services, but that they want them now. The research company has been collecting data annually, but recently went to quarterly surveys and the results indicate that annual spending on remote managed IT services is expected to increase 3.3 times in…
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Vertical IT Down But Not Out
Vertical IT Down But Not Out Vertical IT down but not outBy Steve Wexler No Title Gartner has released new data on what’s happening globally in the vertical IT markets.Sales will be down in 2009 but they are predicting growth in 2010. Channel Insider takes a closer look at what’s hot and what’s not. IT…
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HD Video Conferencing Heats Up as Logitech Buys LifeSize
Hours after video conferencing vendor Tandberg’s (OSL:TAA) shareholders failed to approve a proposed deal to be acquired by networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced plans to acquire privately held video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. LifeSize offers high-definition video conferencing solutions for the budget-minded, with solutions priced at less than $10,000 and offered through…
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EC Objects to Oracle, Sun Microsystems Deal
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp’s acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc, throwing the $7 billion deal into question. The commission said in a preliminary assessment that combining Sun’s MySQL database product and Oracle’s products could hurt competition in the database market, Sun said in a filing with…
