IBM
- IBM sells US Government $325M in supercomputers (they are the fastest computers ever made):
http://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/300074813/ibm-cheers-325m-supercomputer-and-openpower-cpu-win.htm - IBM CFO: Not all revenue is good revenue:
“In just the last 10 years, we were split 30, 33 and 36 hardware, software and services and now our hardware business just last year was down to seven percent of our profit, and services was nearly half and software was nearly the other half,” he explains.
- Apparently this is big news: Ginni Rometty was granted membership to Augusta golf course. (She was denied 2 years ago, there is like 60 articles on this topic).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56436d16-6b6e-11e4-ae52-00144feabdc0.html - IBM Watson group introducing mobile health app:
However, the abundance of data about our health and health concerns creates a problem: how do we manage it all? That’s where Watson comes in. Watson’s cognitive computing abilities sort through all that data and finds exactly what you need based on your medical history and genetic information.
- IBM Study: IT Departments Build Shared Value, Shared Belief with Business Leaders
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03627usen/GBE03627USEN.PDF - IBM’s heavy SoftLayer push beings – offering $10,000 credits and free access to BlueMix apps:
http://www.cloudwedge.com/4891-ibm-offers-startups-10k-per-month-in-softlayer-credits/They are specifically targeting start-ups (giving them free support and mentoring as well)
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/11/10/ibm-wants-startups-on-its-cloud/
Oracle
- Oracle allowing SAP to pay only $349M in a $1.3B legal copyright (TomorrowNow) settlement:
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/oracle-settles-for-sap-to-pay-359m-in-copyright-suit-analyst-blog-cm414331 - Monopoly claim against Oracle can proceed:
Sun released its UNIX-based Solaris operating system in 1992. Sun provided end users free updates of its copyrighted, proprietary Solaris system, bug fixes and firmware for free. But that ended in 2011, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, and required customers to sign exclusive contracts tying them to Oracle support services.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/11/12/oracle-not-off-the-hook-in-monopoly-case.htm
- Oracle’s corporate pay system still under fire:
Oracle took great troubles in the previous year to face complaints about how much it paid top executives of the firm. Larry Ellison, founder of oracle even took a pay cut. Yet the firm investors persist to signal their condemnation of the firm’s compensation performs. For the third year in line, more investors voted beside than for a nonbinding suggestion to support the pay awarded to firm executives.
HP
- HP under fire for Israeli support at the Palestine borders:
The company supplies products and services to the Israeli “Ministry of Defense” and the Israeli Navy, and maintains a presence in an illegal West Bank settlement. It also supplies and maintains a high-tech system of ID controls at Israel’s brutal and sadistic network of racist checkpoints in the West Bank.
- HP releases mobile device management system (focus is on mid and small sized companies):
Rather than confining the use of IT management services in the cloud to smartphones and tablets, Park says the time has come to simplify the management of all mobile computing devices. While large enterprise IT organizations usually have dedicated solutions to manage devices, Park notes that the average SMB organization is now being overwhelmed because every employee now has multiple devices to be managed.
Other
- There has been a security flaw in Windows since Win05 that was just recently patched:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/microsoft-fixes-19-year-old-bug-in-windows-2014-11
PS: If this is another shell shock situation, forget my name 🙂 [NOTE: It was patched in May] - SalesForce drops $640M on San Francisco office:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/salesforce-signs-agreement-to-purchase-50-fremont-street-building-expanding-worldwide-headquarters-in-san-francisco-2014-11-12 - Microsoft’s SaaS Cloud Strategy is working:
They are avoiding a hardware show-down with Amazon and Google and pushing their SaaS product line and making smart partnerships with companies like DropBox and SalesForce.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/11/10/this-is-why-microsoft-corporation-will-win-the-clo.aspx
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