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'Megadeals' may be on the way out

...business goals, according to Gartner. That's not to say that the megadeal is dead. One day after EDS and Dow ended their billion-dollar... Read more

Sep 17, 2004

Behind the scenes of Oracle-Siebel

...September, Oracle and Siebel signed off on the acquisition ? marking yet another megadeal for the database and applications vendor. Oracle expects the deal to close... Read more

Oct 25, 2005

What ails Oracle?

...of total revenue one year ago. An industry that thrived on the megadeal during the 1990s, when new, multimillion-dollar contracts were commonplace, is now... Read more

Sep 17, 2004

SAP: It's not all about innovation

The chief executive officer of SAP, Henning Kagermann, explains why his company didn't merge with Microsoft, and how he sees IT budgets developing Read more

Jul 12, 2004

Services megadeals not quite so mega

...margin tends to be higher than that at EDS, Garrity said. Meanwhile, megadeal profit margins are under pressure. IDC's Melenovsky said it's more... Read more

Sep 5, 2003

Outsourcing to boom in 2003

According to Gartner Dataquest, IT outsourcing to workforces abroad is booming, and the sector is likely to grow further this year Read more

Jan 31, 2003

A Year Ago: AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun

...end up owning Netscape's enterprise business following the merger With Internet megadeal players Netscape Communications, America Online and Sun Microsystems huddled in quiet conference... Read more

Jan 11, 2000

AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun

With Internet megadeal players Netscape Communications Corp., America Online Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. huddled... Read more

Jan 12, 1999

Commerce One's second act

...was whether the software maker could beat out Ariba for the next megadeal as the two rivals raced the clock to build the electronic future... Read more

Jul 26, 2002

ZDNet UK Live

J.A. Watson

Hi Jake, I like your definition. I would add "Free to support, in whatever way you see fit and appropriate, or not." jw

6 minutes ago by J.A. Watson on Free Software Definition condensed
Tezzer

From what I've read here and elsewhere Viacom stands to lose very heavily from this spat. They have already lost all public credibility since it...

1 hour ago by Tezzer on Google, Viacom trade blows in YouTube copyright spat
Tezzer

Still finding it difficult to get around the site. Some articles/comments seem to have reply links and some don't - only a link to the poster.

2 hours ago by Tezzer on ZDNet UK: faster, smarter, still IT all the way
Tezzer

Unfortunately the real problem here is that a very small number of very big companies want to make a great deal of money out of this. Every house...

2 hours ago by Tezzer on It's high time we had a manifesto for fibre
dava4444

this spam bot is exasperating

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

:D I think the server exchange does slow down a bit round 5 to 7/8 pm but I find I mostly get 3 to 4 MBps on downloads and by that time there...

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

night before last

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

5MBps, I saw 5.8

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

honestly I do get

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

thank you for the support. ..but in

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

if you download a BIG file from the MS site then THAT is your *true* speed.

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

Hi Fat Pop Do Wop!

6 hours ago by dava4444 on I'd Rather Have a Bigger Byte Than a Little bit...Broadband
dava4444

it filters the word 'aittude' mis spelled intentionally

6 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

but with a fair amount of work, possibly. God Bless Dava

6 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

But I think Googles idea could be developed into an able paradigm. right now, no.

6 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

took there repos down for Ubuntu (I think there back now but they took a few months). I don't think there is a perfect answer,

8 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

but the community coding and ideas would be gratis, maybe that's why OEM's can be 'slackers' when it comes to Linux. they just sit back and let...

8 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

continued the bad point about that is hardware, a rival OEM can take your development and use it themselves and to retaliate you would have to go...

8 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

continued Okay how about something like Google's approach 'semi-open source'? . the OEM pours cash in to development and code, whilst opening it...

9 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster
dava4444

Hi Adrian em, interesting, yeah okay I can get this vibe, if I wanted VRec on my Tele I would need an embedded and tiny OS and you're totally...

9 hours ago by dava4444 on How to build a GUI for a toaster

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