Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'm&a'

"I’d expect Sun to offer some kind of “MySQL in the cloud” service that could be one component in a service offering that competes with Amazon an its S3/EC2/SimpleDB offerings." - i hope so, but haven't seen signs of this myself yet. great roundup,

jeremy linuxquestions mysql sun m&a cloud amazon ec2 s3 simpledb
january 2008 by sogrady

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Anant Jhingran's Musings: Why we acquire what we acquire?

a good post from Anant on the acquisition strategy from IBM; would also have added the hire of Damien Katz, though obviously he is not a firm.

anantjhingran m&a ibm informationmanagement datamirror princetonsoftech cognos solid
january 2008 by sogrady

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Jaiku users flee to Twitter as a result of Google's neglect

Google does many things better than some of the established large vendors, but acquisition do not appear to be one of them. Urchin, Grand Central, Jaiku, Dodgeball, and Blogger have all stagnated under their care.

google jaiku m&a grandcentral acquisition socialnetworking
january 2008 by sogrady

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always find myself agreeing with an interview i saw with Cisco's CEO Chambers: culture can be among the most important considerations when it comes to M&A.

culture hiring m&a redhat jboss saviorodrigues
december 2007 by sogrady

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Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

very interesting news. more on this later.

zimbra yahoo m&a messaging collaboration enterprise opensource isps oem via:stshank
september 2007 by sogrady

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TreeHugger acquisition confirmed | The Social - CNET News.com

good for the TreeHugger folks - great news

treehugger blogging discoverychannel m&a
august 2007 by sogrady

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GrandCentral Blog » Blog Archive » We’re now part of Google!

congrats to the folks from Grand Central. this is a very interesting acqusition for Google, if they can integrate it properly - which remains to be seen. will write it up later this week if someone doesn't do a better job first

grandcentral google voip M&A voice unifiedcommunications collaboration
july 2007 by sogrady

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BT Acquires TiddlyWiki, Name Change Imminent : Venture Chronicles

pinged this into the #redmonk the other day, but this is an interesting acquisition: no idea what BT has planned, but congrats to Jeremy

tiddlywiki wikis bt jeremyrushton M&A ajax
june 2007 by sogrady

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Google becoming Microsoft + Yahoo at the same time? - SWiK

Alex isn't enthusiastic about the GOOG's current branding and acquisition strategy

alexbosworth google microsoft yahoo M&A branding
april 2007 by sogrady

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Google Operating System: Dodgeball Founders Leave Google

"So now dodgeball looks almost the same as two years ago, while the mobile social space evolved and services like twitter or dada grew a lot lately. The obvious question is: why did Google buy Dodgeball?" - why indeed?

dodgeball google mobile founders M&A
april 2007 by sogrady

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BruceBlog

i think this is a terrific acquisition for Iona, and Bruce is pleased from his end - should be interesting

logicblaze iona M&A brucesnyder
april 2007 by sogrady

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What if Microsoft Bought Yahoo? (by Jeremy Zawodny)

what if indeed? would be severe cultural problems, severe integration problems, but the resulting entity would be a much more significant competitor to Google

yahoo microsoft google M&A speculation
january 2007 by sogrady

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Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Fonality, Trixbox, and is Microsoft Asleep at the Wheel Again?

Aker's right; Trixbox is a big acquisition for Fonality

asterisk linux voip fonality trixbox M&A
october 2006 by sogrady

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Joyeur: Joyent and the Sun X4500

anybody else think Joyent and Sun are growing close, like really, really close? wish there was an M&A book

joyent sun partners M&A thumper
september 2006 by sogrady

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Comments on the IBM-FileNet acquisition - Column 2 - ebizQ

i was wondering what Sandy would have to aay on this, and she's linked to enough content that it may not even be worth writing up my own thoughts on it

filenet ibm ecm M&A
august 2006 by sogrady

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Rumor: JBoss could get a new boss | News.blog | CNET News.com

i've heard this rumor several times now - no idea if there's any truth to it, but it'd be a very interesting acquisition for oracle

oracle jboss M&A rumors
february 2006 by sogrady

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Google Acquisitions » SEO by the SEA

useful rollup of Google acquisitions

google M&A web2.0 history startups flip vc
january 2006 by sogrady

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hyku | blog - Om Says NewsGator Buying NetNewsWire - by business blog consultant Josh Hallett

NewsGator's building themselves a nice cross-platform portfolio, slowly but surely

newsgator netnewswire M&A
october 2005 by sogrady

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RED HERRING | Sun Wants IBM's Server Unit

say what you will, Schwartz is never bad copy ;) (via Grisanzio)

grisanzio schwartz sun ibm hardware M&A
june 2005 by sogrady

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Who Will Google Buy Next? || kuro5hin.org

speculation on Google M&A; for my money, i'd look at Audioscrobbler

audioscrobbler google M&A delicious services
june 2005 by sogrady

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A Microsoft-Red Hat warming trend? | Tech News on ZDNet

intriguing

redhat microsoft gates executives M&A
may 2005 by sogrady

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Conceivable? | Doc Searls' IT Garage

lots of problems with this, but interesting nonetheless; would be a *huge* upheaval within both companies, and the rest of the industry

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may 2005 by sogrady

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Flickr: FlickrCentral

check out Caterina's comments on the rumors - she doesn't exactly deny them, but definitely casts doubt on them

flickr M&A yahoo google
february 2005 by sogrady

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business2blog: Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored

hmm...interesting rumor - we'll see, i guess - expect to hear a LOT more about this shortly

flickr M&A yahoo google
february 2005 by sogrady

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A software comeback? | CNET News.com

good piece by LaMonica the outlook for software vendors; i agree, there will be tough times for many, but also good opportunities

software-industry consolidation M&A managed-services saas opensource
january 2005 by sogrady

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The Internet Stock Blog: Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?

don't know if it'll happen, but it does make sense

blogging yahoo google microsoft M&A movabletype
january 2005 by sogrady

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CRN | Breaking News | EMC's Tucci: More Software And Services Acquisitions Coming

EMC apparently still on the prowl (via Coté)

emc ilm M&A services storage
january 2005 by sogrady

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BLADAM - Entry: "Next Google acquisition: Flickr Picasa 2.0 = Fotoogle"

interesting, Flickr & Google would certainly seem to be a good technical and cultural match (via InsideGoogle)

flickr google M&A culture social-applications
december 2004 by sogrady

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Crazy idea number 527: should IBM buy Apple? - Computer Business Review

more Apple/IBM rumors making the rounds...

apple ibm M&A rumor
december 2004 by sogrady

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Apple of IBM's eye? | The Register

just one problem here: IBM has emphatically and decidedly avoided any and all contact with the consumer space, making this a rather significant departure

apple ibm M&A rumors
december 2004 by sogrady

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