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  • Mergers and acquisitions: do they really matter?

    Do software customers actually care about the impact of provider's mergers and acquisitions, or are they just too far from the crux of business.

  • Compaq braces for the single life

    Compaq appears to be preparing itself for life on its own as the odds diminish that one of the most hyped and rocky engagements ever will survive.

  • HP laughs off Solaris merger offer

    During Hewlett-Packard's Business Critical Systems conference in Macau this week, executives described a recent offer by Sun Microsystems' boss Scott McNealy to merge Solaris with HP-UX as "almost laughable".

  • Fiorina steps down at HP

    Carly Fiorina, the embattled leader of Hewlett-Packard, stepped down as chairman and CEO on Wednesday as HP tries to redefine itself for a new era.

  • PeopleSoft: Conway was less than honest

    A PeopleSoft board member testified Monday that former CEO Craig Conway was fired in large part because of his reckless exaggeration to Wall Street analysts when informing them last year that Oracle's offer to buy the company was no longer a disruptive influence.

  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • States prep Oracle-PeopleSoft review

    Attorneys general from approximately 30 states this week ramped up their review of Oracle's US$6.3 billion unsolicited bid for PeopleSoft, according to sources.

  • IBM sells PC group to Lenovo

    Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group said Tuesday it will take a majority stake in a partnership with IBM's PC group in a deal valued at US$1.75 billion.

  • Is a bulked-up HP ready for battle?

    Although Hewlett-Packard is finally getting settled into married life, some analysts say the company still needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up.

  • Tech job crunch: what's in it for Australia?

    Over the past couple of months there have been both rumours and confirmations surfacing in Australia's tech sector of layoffs, downsizing, and redeployment. Is this just the start?

  • Lucent reorganises to revitalise sales

    Lucent Technologies has reorganised into two main product divisions, part of the struggling company's effort to revitalise sales.

  • PC makers- consolidate or die

    A key analyst has recommended massive and immediate consolidation of the major American PC vendors. How will investors react to the new 'manifesto?'

  • MS-DOJ: The reporters weigh in

    At its halfway point, the remarkable courtroom confrontation between the world's biggest independent software maker and the U.S. federal government, was topic Numero Uno in the computer industry.

  • Death of the free Web: A new world order

    Free turns to fee as companies begin to charge for content and services. Will gated Internet communities bring a segregation of information?

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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