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Leader: What Symantec-Veritas deal tells us
Leader But it is not only its size - $13.5bn - or the expectation of a wave of further software vendor mergers that is of note here. Much has already been said about the Symantec-Veritas marriage given that it has been telegraphed over the past week. [16 Dec 2004]
Leader: Consolidate, consolidate, consolidate
Leader The move marks the latest in a flurry of mergers and acquisitions within the security industry, contrary to the suggested wisdom of one industry figure who recently warned that the large consolidators will lose the selling power of perceived... [06 Oct 2004]
Leader: IT's part in the business of compliance
Leader But how often have large mergers taken place - not only among banks - where the respective CIOs haven't been asked the big IT questions, mainly about integration? Compliance is clearly one of the big issues of 2004. [22 Apr 2004]
Butler on: Enterprise portals - still de rigueur
Comment Mergers and acquisitions by organisations have increased the heterogeneous nature of data centres. Three years ago, every application with a piece of HTML code was labelled by its developer, or vendor, as a portal. [24 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: BPM, software industry consolidation and Google’s monopoly?
Comment This is already evident in the enterprise content management sector as a relentless series of mergers are transforming the landscape into a small number of the players providing a soup-to-nuts range of capabilities. [29 Feb 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Tell me something good about Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards
Comment Are the proposed mergers in the applications software business all negative in nature? Even if that weren't the case, consider this nugget: 90 per cent of 1990s mergers failed to deliver on their stated objectives. [11 Jun 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Cyber warfare, call centre futures and M&A today
Comment Back in the not too distant past, mergers and acquisitions were used to gain market share, and move into new territories and different sectors of a market. That's not to say that mergers and acquisitions don't work - they do, it's just important... [17 Feb 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 2
Comment Five of the ten largest mergers in corporate history up to that point in time involved phone companies. In the second excerpt from The Great Telecoms Swindle, Keith Brody and Sancha Dunstan consider just how over-inflated the telecoms market became. [21 Jan 2003]
Gartner on 2003 - the bad news
Comment They can expect to see key suppliers disappear this year, through mergers or bankruptcy. Call it realism, call it pessimism - just don't look to Gartner for false cheer about the IT market. The analyst house said it has taken some flak from vendors... [16 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Joined up working
Comment Integration is supposed to be the magic dust that makes mergers work, the glue that allows best of breed purchases - you know the hype. Yet time and time again companies have entered mergers and take-overs with bold claims of huge cost savings and... [03 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: You and Microsoft licensing - who's the customer?
Comment Local purchasing, mergers or acquisitions are just a few of the factors that can easily distort the numbers. Licensing is a subject close to the hearts of most IT departments. Martin Brampton asks what, if anything, can be negotiated with Microsoft? [17 Sep 2002]
What's the fuss about... UnitedLinux?
Comment The market grew, and attrition and mergers and acquisitions led to a market where there are only a few major Unix flavours left - AIX, HP-UX and Solaris being the main ones. In his first column, leading commentator Clive Longbottom casts a critical... [16 Aug 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Spend on technology, be successful
Comment Many mergers and acquisitions are put together in a rush with no consideration of technology issues. Is there a direct link between spending on IT and being a successful business? Many commentators attributed the late nineties US economic boom to... [25 Mar 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Marconi, Vodafone and lessons from telecoms acquisitions
Comment At a time when we have seen numerous mergers and acquisitions, many companies must be asking themselves if it was wise to raid the war chest for a shopping spree. Last week saw two major players in the telecoms industry, Marconi and Vodafone... [19 Nov 2001]
The Ovum View: What will become of iPlanet?
Comment It is focused on content and services, rather than software infrastructure, and is in the throes of dealing with one of the largest mergers in corporate history during a major economic downturn. On 17 March 1999, AOL completed the $4.3bn... [15 Nov 2001]
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