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Crazy Hamster Ball 1.1

...buy level skips or get them for free by taking the free megadeal. Both are available from the store inside the app.Also don't... Read more

4 March, 2012
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Crazy Hamster Ball Free 1.0

...buy level skips or get them for free by taking the free megadeal. Both are available from the store inside the app.Also don't... Read more

27 February, 2012

'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

17 September, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Outsourcing: Is the megadeal really dead

...The public sector meanwhile, once one of the chief proponents of the megadeal, is moving towards a more multisourced approach, with CIOs from across government... Read more

19 February, 2010 by Jo Best

IBM and Dell sign $16bn megadeal

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5 March, 1999 by Julian Goldsmith

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

25 October, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

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

17 September, 2004 by Mike Ricciuti

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

12 July, 2004 by Alorie Gilbert

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

5 September, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

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

31 January, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

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

26 July, 2002 by Alorie Gilbert

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

11 January, 2000 by Ben Elgin

AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun

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

12 January, 1999 by Ben Elgin

Re:Viewing 2005: The year in outsourcing

...numerous, smaller outsourcing contracts meant a continued decline in the so-called 'megadeal' but other notable contract wins in the UK included the EDS-led... Read more

20 December, 2005 by Andy McCue

MoD chooses BT to help test SKYNET

...more significant wins for the telco's services arms, including a $3bn megadeal with news organisation Reuters and a and $500m deal with Barclays Read more

11 March, 2005 by Jo Best

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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