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Archive for April 2009

Oracle buying Sun is great for Oracle, bad for IBM

Posted by: Admin on: April 28, 2009

Oracle buying Sun is great for Oracle, bad for IBM
by: Jerry Liao
On 20 April 2009, the I.T. industry was taken by surprised when Sun Microsystems and Oracle announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun in a deal valued at approximately US$7.4 billion, or $9.50 per share.
This came [...]

In general, the local I.T. market is slow as indicated by people I have spoken to. They say that the corporate market is a bit conservative in as far as their I.T. spending is concerned, while the consumer market continue to grow due to the popularity of the netbooks.
According to my sources, the enterprise [...]

Carriers will struggle to maintain market position

Posted by: Admin on: April 21, 2009

The impression of many is that telecom carriers seems to be immune to the so-called recession is not totally true. Carriers are affected by the ongoing economic slowdown plus they have to compete with the other players.
Shifts in customer demand, a changing competitive landscape, a weak economy and new government policies will [...]

Dark cloud surrounds cloud computing

Posted by: Admin on: April 19, 2009

Here we go again, a technology will be introduced, a lot of good things will be said about it and after some time, the technology will be proven inefficient.
Remember what happen to data warehousing before? They say its the way to go but it failed to deliver what its supposed to deliver. The failure of [...]

Have you been in a situation where you saw something, you want to know more about it but you don’t know what it is or what it is called? Even if you have a computer or an internet enabled phone with you, it would be difficult to search for something that you don’t know.
Sometime ago, [...]