Systems management software vendor BMC Software has finally completed the deal that will take into private ownership. The $6.4bn deal will see BMC fall into the hands of private equity companies Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. ...
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Google's Waze acquisition should not need an antitrust probe, according to the chairman of research and analysis firm TechMarketView, Richard Holway. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) had been urged to block Google's $1.3bn (£830m) ...
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Samsung is to release its Galaxy S4 smartphone at an event in New York this week, a move that could see it beat Apple's iPhone 5 in terms of both sales and technology. The once dazzling Apple brand has been tarnished in recent months by a ...
The United Kingdom government’s new attitude to large public sector software and IT services (SITS) suppliers may prove “counter-productive”, according to industry analyst TechMarketView. TechMarketView has just ...
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Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis: SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and ...
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Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis:SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and'licence ...
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Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis:SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and'licence ...
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HP has confirmed that it will wield the axe on those of its businesses that don't meet targets, official documents have revealed. As first reported by Bloomberg, HP told the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a 27 December filing ...
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The UK IT industry will decline in real terms until at least 2016, and there is a real risk of the sector reaching a decade of downturn, according to research from TechMarketView (TMV). The analyst firm said the take-up of technologies ...
CGI, the Canadian IT firm that is acquiring UK outsourcer Logica, has announced a fall in net income of 30% following the takeover announcement. For its third-quarter results for the three months to June, the company saw sales increase by ...
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Citrix saw profits slump by 15% in the third quarter to $78.2m (GBP49m), while sales increased by 13% to $641.4m. The results follows those of rival VMware, which also saw a double-digit drop in profits of 12% to $157m, while sales ...
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Cloud computing is an increasingly significant segment of the IT outsourcing sector, but has a tipping point really been reached or are we one large data breach away from an about-turn? The cloud currently represents only a fraction of ...
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Enterprise software provider CA Technologies has appointed Michael Gregoire as its new chief executive officer after a six-month search. Gregoire, 46, has worked in the software and IT services industry for 25 years, most recently at the ...
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a deal with IBM to provide greater insight into the management of its £22.5bn property portfolio. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the body responsible for managing the MoD's ...
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IT giant Oracle has posted a modest increase in sales of 3%to$9.1bn(£5.6bn)for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013,compared with the same quarter the year before. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions ...
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