A feisty Oracle comes out swinging at the government’s insistence that its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft would be detrimental to the business software market. Elsewhere, a trial preperation shows Microsoft, SAP mulled merger: The companies initiated merger discussions late last year, but eventually broke off talks for reasons of complexity, according to information uncovered during discovery in the Oracle case. However, Apple’s top executive said Monday that the company does not plan any mergers, though it has $5 billion cash in the bank. On the opposite side, longtime Wall Street analyst Steven Milunovich is urging HP’s top management to split the company into two separate businesses.
Mergers, More Mergers and Splits
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Apple just needs to buy SGI.
I have a dream: Apple buys Sun. :-X
Apple buys SCO and fired a certain someone.
Since we are talking about Apple. I want them to buy sybase!
I have a dream: Apple buys Sun. :-X
I have the same dream
A big miss in the Mac software line up is Autocad.
Apple should by Autodesk relaunch cad for MacOS X and drop the PC version.
PC user can get the update for free if they buy a Mac.
Phil