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		<title>The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217; ? Maybe Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will rather say that history repeats itself. By the way, this is a quote from Hegel and Marx added that first time was tragedy, and the second time farce. Yet this post is not about a Bob Dylan against Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Buys Sun: What Will Happen Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun&#8217;s cash and debt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM Rational and WebSphere Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended last week a conference in Geneva where IBM was presenting the strategy for its Rational and WebSphere software development solutions. If you consider IBM as a hardware company, you should realize that today services is the most important revenue sector and software is the most important source of income. Currently, IBM focus is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM Acquires ILOG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM and ILOG announced that they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. The cash tender offer will be at a price of €10 per ordinary share. This will amount to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP Acquires EDS: Too Much and Too Soon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar year 2008 and to more than double HP&#8217;s services revenue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Concert Beta 3 Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IBM&#8217;s Jazz project has just released the beta number 3 of its Rational Team Concert (also named Rational Team Concert 1.0 RC2), the first product based on the Jazz Team Server. I had the chance to attend recently in Geneva to an interesting presentation given by John Kellerman, the product manager of Jazz. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun is Buying MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should be something related to the sales period as the same day that Oracle scoop BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion. MySQL was forecasted to set an IPO this year, but it seems that with the difficult conditions of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Finally Acquires BEA Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a small one month battle with an offer at $17 for share last October, Oracle Corporation and BEA Systems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 [...]]]></description>
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