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Reports that IBM is taking a serious look at Sun, clearly a lot to read about on this in the next 24 hours. The following is assuming that it goes through and the transaction develops. Clearly anything could happen to accelerate this, or to put the brakes on it.
From a services point of view, it is less strategic, Sun services is Sun product based support and consulting, ...
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Really, this is a case of too little too late. Why has it taken several months since such a stimulus plan is released for IT in this country to send a letter to the PM and request a meeting. Really it is an indictment on the poor level of IT lobbying in this country. The previous government did not understand IT, the current one has some patches of awareness but is for s ...
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This appointment does not surprise, in one way or another Unisys will be a changed company by the end of 2009. Which way this will move is hard to judge right now. From talking to various people the uncertainty over their fiscal direction is not having a significant impact yet, but it is ...
If I had the money, and the due dilligence, regulation and other factors all lined up I would buy Satyam. I would be the perfect base for a low cost selling and delivery arm for emerging markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, let alone India. As well it could fill the mid market cost requirement of the more mature markets. Unhinged from the relatively high cost of IBM and Accenture labor it would pr ...
Whilst no more news on IBM and Satyam, there is still a few M&A issues floating around.
Accenture is looking at Bearing Point in Asia Pacific, Japan is of course key here, and some public sector insight. It would create the very interesting (insert more descriptive word) of David Hunter returning to Accenture perhaps given his role as COO of Bearing Point and location in Sydney.
Unisys is no ...