All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

No doubt that in the current globalization era, the way to grow business and market share passes through mergers and acquisitions. Oracle has perfectly taught the IT world how to do it. Digesting 40 companies in less than 15 months is an achievement by its own, but making a positive synergy that is...

Microsoft is in the middle of a tremendous browser battle.  Their share has been eroding, and the web masses are getting restless.  Internet Explorer 8 is an attempt to fight back Firefox and Safari, but it also appears to be a change in approach for Microsoft.

An Oracle exec from an edge of the empire is quoted as saying that Oracle has a grand plan to invade and infect enterprises where SAP lives.  The reality on the ground is more that Oracle has abandoned the grand vision of an integrated enterprise solution and is simply assembling revenue generators...

Growing by acquisition at some level seems like an easy approach to taking over much of the market, yet repeated failures through the years in various businesses have clearly demonstrated it is a road laden with minefields.  Oracle has figured out how to avoid those minefields and appears set to...

In a rare outburst a software developer came out and said what everyone in the industry already knows, Apple does not believe in a level playing field and keeps to itself important information to slow down and even stop outside development.

- Cable MSOs current strategy will buy them some time. - They must plan for a longer term future to compete effectively with Telcos. 

The increasing demand for VOD and other IP based services over the CATV platform sets a real bottleneck in front of the CATV providers. While demand hikes, infrastructure mainly remains the same with its limited BW capability. This problem is currently seeing some efforts to be solved. Harmonic acquisition...

1.  CATV MSO's are faced with dealing with heavy bandwidth requirements for high definition TV, Video-on-Demand, and higher speed data needs of customers. 2.  CATV MSO's are looking for the best fit technologies for the issues they face, as long as the cost is in line with their budgets.

1.  Microsoft is planning another operating system in a few years, so why upgrade. 2.  Microsoft seems to have lost the operating system was on mobile devices to Apple

Novell’s last quarterly results show an impressive turnaround in their business, but the bulk of their revenues are still from legacy products.  While SuSE is doing much better, largely due to the Microsoft deal, there’s still a long way to go for the new products to provide Novell’s overall g...