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Grim times for hard drives
News The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects, according to the report, released on Thursday by investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston.
[May 28, 2004, 9:50]
Layoff whispers get louder at Oracle
News Credit Suisse First Boston analyst George Gilbert said in a research note on Friday that Oracle is cutting about 1 percent to 2 percent of its work force, or roughly 400 to 800 employees. Oracle wasn't immediately available Friday to comment on the...
[June 10, 2002, 7:32]
Computacenter Case Study: Credit Suisse
White Papers Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) came to terms with this issue when it set out to implement a storage solution to serve data to its equities division, and mirror this data to a disaster recovery center.
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
Consulting firms anticipate upswing
News Things are looking up for companies that provide information technology consulting, according to research released on Wednesday by investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston. First Boston survey of 100 chief information officers found that 46...
[March 11, 2004, 8:55]
SCO suit fails to deter Linux plans
News Apparently just a small portion of companies thinking about implementing Linux, according to a recent survey of 100 chief information officers by investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston. The CS First Boston study, conducted in September, found...
[October 15, 2003, 8:50]
Jobs pledges Apple fixes
News On Thursday, Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse First Boston said they cut their earnings-per-share outlooks for Apple. He cited a recent $300 rebate on the desktop systems as a first step to addressing complaints that the Cubes are overpriced -- he...
[October 20, 2000, 9:26]
Chip designer tests IPO waters
News The IPO's lead underwriter is Credit Suisse First Boston. This is the best first-day performance we've seen since Global Power in May this year," said Richard Peterson, an analyst with Thompson Financial Securities.
[November 21, 2001, 14:40]
Lastminute.com: Forget Google - we're the innovators
News Steinmetz, whose CV includes developing real-time trading systems for the likes of Credit Suisse First Boston, claims the search technology required to collate fluctuating and temporary flight times and prices with hotel reservation systems is...
[March 2, 2004, 9:55]
Red Hat edges ahead of estimates
News Large corporate accounts switching some computers from Unix to Red Hat Linux include Morgan Stanley, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Analysts surveyed by First Call expected break-even results.
[December 19, 2001, 10:45]
650 UK jobs go in Alcatel cutbacks
News Analysts at Credit Suisse First Boston warned that it thought it unlikely that Alcatel would be able to reach its debt target of 4.5bn euros by the end of 2001, and predicted that the company could see its credit rating downgraded.
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
IBM talks of 10,000 new jobs
News Also this week, investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston released a survey finding that 47 percent of chief information officers project at least a moderate spending increase in 2004, while 36 percent expect to hold capital spending flat.
[October 16, 2003, 14:35]
Linuxcare CEO leaves, IPO delayed
News The firm is backed by Credit Suisse First Boston, Chase H&Q, and Fleet Boston Robertson Stephens. Linuxcare, which provides customer service for business Linux users, Friday announced the departure of its CEO and the delay of its stock market...
[April 10, 2000, 11:41]
Oracle will not swallow 'poison pill'
News But it has arranged for a $5bn revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse First Boston, which it would also draw on to pay shareholders. Oracle's hostile takeover bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft will expire 7 July, but Oracle expects to...
[June 9, 2003, 14:51]
Linux: The forking fight-back
News Some large companies, such as Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), have already announced they will only deploy LSB-compliant software, and those kinds of announcements could be the spur that ISVs need.
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Microsoft's multiple personalities
News It's used by large companies such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Telekom and L.L. Top credit still goes to Microsoft's abusive tactics, which lay at the core of the Justice Department's lawsuit.
[November 4, 2002, 8:09]
Symantec shareholders back Veritas takeover
News John Thompson has staked out a very bold move, and if it's the right bold strategic move and their financial results bear that out, the stock price will come back," said Kevin Sidders, a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston.
[June 27, 2005, 10:35]
Sun's move to 'change the rules'
News Michael Kwatinetz, an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston, suggests that it would cost companies far more to retrain their existing Office users on StarOffice than they would save by using the competitive software.
[August 31, 1999, 16:41]
Is Linux on the move?
News Both Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch have converted major systems to Linux. When the open source fever dies down, one of two things is likely to happen: First, the companies benefiting most from its existence---processor manufacturers...
[July 3, 2002, 10:42]
Oracle's Red Hat salvo falls short of mark
News Customers now have a viable way to drive down the cost of running Linux and are likely to use this information in contract negotiations even if they don't switch," said Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Jason Maynard.
[October 27, 2006, 15:45]
Server startup banking on novel design
News Indeed, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston are among those beta testing the "BladeFrame" servers, which will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece, Brownell said in an interview. The company's first product, codenamed "Bolton" will...
[May 3, 2001, 8:46]
