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As the year draws to a close, we thought about the memorable quotes related to IT and offer, in no particular order, 15 that stuck with us.

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer As the purgatory of Oracle's under-review bid to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion drags on, it's worth basking in the darn-near sublime predicament Oracle has woven for itself.

With Oracle 's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems stalled by European Union deliberations , industry dignitaries offered mixed perspectives recently on the ultimate fate of the deal and what it could mean for Sun technologies if the deal falls through.

The networking giant keeps giving second chances to the owners of Norwegian teleconference specialist Tandberg -- and third, and fourth, and ... The deadline for Cisco's latest buyout offer, which includes an ill-conceived boost to the price , had been extended three times in the hopes that at least 90% of shareholders would find the $3.4 billion ...

Oracle's acquisition of Sun has hit some European roadblocks, but if it goes through customers will have to prepare to negotiate with a new IT behemoth.

Facebook announced last week before the Thanksgiving holiday that it has created a dual-class share structure.

Posted At : November 30, 2009 1:07 PM Related Categories: William Busch According to Wikipedia "Nineteenth century steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie introduced the idea of vertical integration.

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When it comes to nerd obsessions, the only thing that can trump a fictional tablet developed by battling left-coast legends is the promise of a revolutionary OS from Google that relies upon nothing but a browser and the dreams of a young Larry Ellison.

Analytics Storage Breaking News 11 * 25 * 09 Columns Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say.

Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked European antitrust regulators to speed up their investigation into Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, due to Sun's "deteriorating financial condition." The senators, led by John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, called on the European Commission to "expedite" its ...

On November 7th, 2009 i worte a column for InformationWeek Analytics Newsletter and i got some responses via email but i thought the discussion was interesting enough that i decided to post the newsletter and some of the comments that sparked the discussion.

You can say a lot of things about Larry Ellison , but never call him a quitter. The planned merger of his Oracle with Sun Microsystems has been in regulatory limbo for months, leading some observers to speculate that Oracle might give up on the buyout altogether.

While industry analysts praise Red Hat's recent investment in EnterpriseDB as a solid strategic move, users expressed mixed views on the impact of Red Hat's fiscal stake in the rapidly growing, open source database company.

If it's true that "money talks," then the bank accounts of Canada's wealthiest citizens are doing a lot of blabbing these days.

For most modern businesses, Microsoft Office is the standard for productivity applications.

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer You have to know when to hold them, and when to fold them.

With activity picking up speed in the European Commission's investigation of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, this is a good time to look back at the series of events in the Oracle-Sun deal.

I couldn't be sure whether that was fog rolling past Oracle's shimmering Redwood City towers last week or steam coming out of the ears of Larry Ellison when he learned the European Union had officially objected to his purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Last week we noted that both HP CEO Mark Hurd and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano have recently said that "cloud computing" is a lousy name.