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Facebook IPO reveals 'hacker' culture
2 February 2012CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlights iterative, 'meritocratic' software development ethos in inaugural SEC filing – and lists it among risk factors
- HP wins a battle in legal war with Oracle
1 February 2012 - Samsung denies interest in acquiring RIM 18 January 2012
- Ford to open Silicon Valley R&D centre 6 January 2012
IT Case Studies
Open source banking
19 December 2011The Bank of East Asia chose open source business intelligence infrastructure to meet its reporting requirements
- Putting old PCs to good use 25 July 2011
- Upgrading the exchange 25 July 2011
- Show them the money 18 April 2011
Perspectives & Trends
Apps for cars
3 January 2012
The automobile industry is experimenting with embedding consumer apps in vehicles
- How to migrate applications to the cloud
3 January 2012 - Agile breeds more successful software projects – poll 30 November 2011
- Mobile developers to focus on enterprise apps 24 August 2011
Features
Relaying the foundation
19 December 2011
Affordable housing developer Enterprise Community Partners has embarked on a four-year IT transformation that places cloud computing at its heart
- Put to the test
12 April 2011 - The tangled web 22 March 2011
- The best of both clouds? 13 September 2010
Company Analysis
The SME building the UK government's IT inventory
25 October 2011Leeds-based CDS is the SME that the government proudly announced is building its new IT asset and service knowledge base
- SnapLogic taps Apple tactics for SaaS integration 20 April 2011
- Platform approach helps Misys capture African innovation 23 March 2011
- Middleware sector bouncing back
12 October 2010
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourcefire Inc | 4Q08 | $25.7 | 33% |
| Borland Software Corp | 4Q08 | $39.8 | -35% |
| Unify Corp | 2Q09 | $10.8 | 21% |
| Tibco Software Inc | 3Q08 | $162.3 | 20% |
| Tibco Software Inc | 4Q08 | $185.5 | 0% |
| Software AG* | 4Q08 | $286.7 | 14% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Development & Integration| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| Aragon Consulting Group | Krugle | n/a |
| Esmertec | Purple Labs | n/a |
| Unify | CipherSoft | n/a |
| Fujitsu | Comneon's s/w dev centre | n/a |
| Micro Focus International | Relativity Technologies | $9.7m |
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Business Applications Innovation Award
BravoSolution's e-procurement tool won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Business Applications Category
Security Innovation Award
Websense took the Information Age Innovation Award for the Security category for its integrated approach to web, email and data security
Data Centre Innovation Award
Digital Realty Trust won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Data Centre category for developing a set of standard for building sustainable data centres
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