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Ellison: Oracle Data Hubs Lead to Solid Biz Decisions
SAN FRANCISCO—You spend $19 a month to get instantaneous information on Iraq or on the U.S. presidential elections through an AOL dialup. That’s cool, but what about getting consistent information on your business, after spending millions on business systems? That’s what Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison asked during his keynote here Wednesday at the Oracle…
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HP Enhances StorageWorks for ILM
In the next round of the ongoing battle for ILM (information lifecycle management) supremacy, Hewlett-Packard Co. has enhanced a series of products designed to help organizations better understand and classify data in an automated fashion. The improvements focus on discovering and classifying data in storage tiers and then moving that data into appropriate storage—either disk,…
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IBM’s PC Unit Sale: Looking for Answers
IBM’s sale of its PC division to Lenovo may be a good deal for shareholders, but I don’t see customers cheering. Click here to read more about IBM’s sale of its PC division to Lenovo. In jettisoning the low-margin personal computer biz, IBM spruces up its balance sheet but also shows longtime customers they are…
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IBM Customers Wary of Change in Wake of Lenovo Deal
For IBM and Lenovo Group Ltd., their deal to merge their PC businesses will result in some big changes for both companies, and officials for both expect those results to be positive. However, users of IBM notebooks and desktop PCs say this deal will only be a success if nothing changes for them. After several…
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IBM Spins Off PC Group with Chinese Partner
In confirming almost a week of speculation, IBM and China-based Lenovo Group Ltd. announced an agreement Tuesday night in which Big Blue will sell its PC division for about $1.75 billion. The deal, which officials from both companies said will be completed in the second quarter of 2005, will make Lenovo the third-largest PC company…
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Cisco, Juniper Making Noise in High-End Routing Space
Dueling Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. are both jockeying for the spotlight on the high end of the routing market with announcements of new developments around their respective CRS-1 and T-series core routers. Cisco, which played catch-up to Juniper in the service provider core routing space last May when it launched the Carrier…
