May 13, 2008

HP buys EDS to take on IBM

Hewlett-Packard and EDS, the Plano, TX-based service giant, announced today that HP will purchase the company for "an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion." The deal has already been approved of by both companies' boards and should be finalized some time in the second half of this year. For EDS, the acquisition is primarily about improving its languishing stock price. For HP, the deal is about increasing its services business, in particular, adding more types of services and increasing its scale in order to take on the king of IT services, IBM.

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Posted by TomR at 10:25 AM |

May 12, 2008

Microsoft and RIM cosy up to take on iPhone

RIM, the company behind the Blackberry smart phone, and Microsoft announced an increase in integration between RIM's mobile devices and the Windows Live service. This news sets the stage for the big summer PR battle between the Blackberry and Apple's iPhone. With the iPhone adding Exchange synchronization and enterprise-friendly features by the end of June, Blackberry, Windows Mobile-powered, and other smart phones will find the enterprise phone market under assault by Apple proponents.

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Posted by TomR at 10:34 AM |

April 10, 2008

Relativity moves modernization from the desktop to the server

Relativity Technologies announced a significant addition to its product family -- the Modernization Workbench Enterprise Edition, a server-based solution that will enable teams of distributed developers to work in concert. Benefits for organizations could be shortened development time, improved code quality, and reduced modernization costs. For Relativity, its primary challenges include ensuring the product meets the needs of its clients, selling to CIOs, having clients use it effectively, and convincing developers that it is in their best interest to support the offering.

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Posted by TomR at 10:23 AM |

March 31, 2008

iPhone 2.0: Answering the call of the enterprise

Earlier this month, Apple announced that the next revision of the iPhone software would support "enterprise features," including a direct link to Exchange, a software development kit, and IT-friendly management capabilities. While the free update is not due for three months, it's clear that the consumer-centric iPod maker will find its iPhone is much more accepted, if not embraced, by usually anti-Apple IT departments.

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Posted by TomR at 10:15 PM |

January 16, 2008

MuleSource expands its SOA lineup

This week, MuleSource, known for its open source enterprise service bus (ESB) offering, announced a trio of product updates and new offerings. In addition to enhancing the Enterprise version of the company's namesake Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the vendor debuted a tool for monitoring transactions and a registry. The enhanced lineup now enables MuleSource to embed itself deeper into service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments.

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Posted by TomR at 10:04 AM |