Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), the Plano, TX-based service giant famous for being founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, and known in its early days for its military-like culture and strict dress code, announced today that HP will purchase the company for "an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion" (read the press release here). ...
Microsoft Corporation and Canadian Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the Blackberry line of phones and the software (see the product page here) that enable the devices to work with Microsoft Exchange servers (among other options), announced plans to integrate Blackberry devices with the Windows Live services (see the product page here). According to the two companies, by this summer, Blackber ...
Last month, Relativity Technologies announced a significant addition to its product family -- the Modernization Workbench Enterprise Edition (see the press release here in PDF format). This new product enables development organizations to make a significant choice: To keep the Modernization Workbench on individual developer desktops, or to implement a server-based solution that will enable teams o ...
In early March, Apple Inc. held one of its typical splashy media events to announce the June availability of the vendor's most significant update to its iPhone line of smart phones -- the iPhone 2.0 software with "enterprise features" (see the press release here). In its brief existence, the iPhone has generated an enormous amount of publicity, from its initial preview in January of last ...
This week, MuleSource Inc., 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 se ...