Monday, December 28th, 2009
It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2009. It was an amazing year for ExtraHop. As for the broader world of IT, 2009 was packed with major news stories that will have significant impact, even years down the road. So here’s our recap list, for the biggest IT stories of 2009.
10. The Demise of Nortel [...]
Tags: 3com, acquisitions, acs, cisco vs hp, cloud computing, dell, emc, java, M&A, mysql, nortel, oracle, perot, private cloud, sun, ucs, unified computing system, vblock, vista, vmware, windows 7, xerox
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
No More IBM-Sun? – A flurry of news outlets are reporting the M&A talk broke down over the weekend. According to a Wall Street Journal report, supposed the talks broke down because Sun had a split board, with current CEO Jonathan Schwartz favoring the merger (even at IBM’s newly reduced price) and former CEO Scott [...]
Tags: cisco, domain, domain expiration, financial services, healthcare, ibm, M&A, mcnealy, merger, packaged software, saas, schwartz, sun
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