By Subraya Mallya
Storage Major EMC, the original acquirer par-excellence is at it again. Today they announced the acquisition of Greenplum to get into Cloud Computing and specifically database management.
For a company that started out as a furniture reseller (I bet you did not know that !), they made successful transition into memory disk drives and eventually becoming [...]
By Subraya Mallya
The recent acquisition of Sybase by SAP got me thinking. Is it me or most leading large companies, thanks to their acquisition binge are beginning to resemble the erstwhile General Motors?
Take a look at Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM and CA, the top 5 pure play software companies (granted IBM is a little service heavy still). [...]
By Subraya Mallya
Seems like the company which claimed it was the Dot in the .com could not muster enough interest or convince IBM to sign on the dotted line. IBM had reportedly made a $9.40 offer to buy Sun and get its hand on the customer base, MySQL, Java, OpenOffice and other properties which Sun had not [...]
