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2005 Power Special Issue: Power Timeline

Power timeline

By nobody , Network World , 12/26/2005
Type Month
Acquisition power moves
January Cisco announces plans to buy wireless LAN vendor Airespace
January Concord buys out Aprisma
January AT&T agrees to $16 billion buyout by SBC
February Verizon announces $6.7 billion bid for MCI
February Microsoft announces plans to buy  anti-virus, anti-spam company Sybari
March Microsoft snaps up Groove founder Ray Ozzie
March Akamai buys Speedera, ending feud
April CA announces $330 million buyout of Concord
April Juniper buys Peribit, Redline to boost stake in enterprise market
May Verizon wins MCI board approval with increased bid for carrier
May Qwest bails out of MCI bidding war
June Sun nabs StorageTek in blockbuster deal
June Citrix buys NetScaler
July Symantec completes Veritas buyout
September Check Point buys IDS vendor Sourcefire
September Oracle to buy Siebel for $3.6 billion
September eBay to buy Skype for $2.6 billion
October Ericsson agrees to buy most of Marconi for $2.1 billion
October The FCC OKs SBC-AT&T, Verizon-MCI buyouts
October Level 3 announces plans to buy WilTel for about $700 million
November Cisco buys out Scientific-Atlanta in video push
December IBM announces plans to buy managment software vendor Micromuse
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General power moves
January Network World survey shows IT budgets on the rise
January Ford says it will cut the cord on 8,000 phones by going wireless
January IBM unlocks access to 500 of its software patents
April BMC announces it is laying off 12% of its workforce
May Blade server company Egenera withdraws IPO plan
May IBM airs plan to ax 13,000 jobs
May The U.S. government seeks bids on a 10-year, $20 billion telecom services program
May FCC issues order requiring VoIP service providers to offer E911
May Verizon says it will decommission its 380 Wi-Fi hot spots in New York City
June VeriSign wins bid to retain operation of .net domain
June AMD launches anti-trust suit against Intel
July CA announces plans to lay off 5% of its workforce
August Hurricane Katrina hits, putting networks to the test
August FCC nixes DSL line sharing rules
September Massachusetts mulls move to open source documents
September HP announces plans for 14,500 job cuts
October EarthLink selected for Philadelphia Wi-Fi network
October Level 3, Cogent peering spat disrupts 'Net
October Federal regulators issue new Internet banking standards
November Novell announces plans to lay off 10% of its workforce
November CA spins off Ingres
December The standard for mobile WiMAX gets approved by IEEE
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People power moves
January FCC Chairman Michael Powell announces he is stepping down
February HP dismisses Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina
March IBM researcher Brian Carpenter takes over as new IETF chair
March Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers is found guilty of fraud
March Kevin Martin is named new FCC chairman 
March HP names former NCR exec Mark Hurd as its president and CEO
June Ex-Cisco execs flee Nortel
September Google hires Internet pioneer Vint Cerf
October Nortel names ex-Motorola exec as new CEO
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Product power moves
January Google airs plans for enterprise desktop search
February Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 debuts
March Novell ships Linux-NetWare combo Open Enterprise Server
April AOL launches program to make its instant-messaging system work with other enterprise IM systems
April Microsoft lays out management road map
May HP makes its self-described biggest storage launch ever
September IBM/Lotus releases Notes/Domino 7.0
September Microsoft says Longhorn software will be called Vista
October Microsoft adds licensing terms for its server operating systems that support virtual server technology
November Microsoft airs plan to offer software as a service
November CA airs Unicenter 11, first major revision in four years
December Cingular rolls out 3G service
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Security power moves
February VoIP Security Alliance debuts
February Cisco enters the intrusion-prevention system market
February First known case of criminal action against an accused spimmer (instant-message spam)
March Microsoft files suit against 117 operators of phishing Web sites
May Microsoft lays out identity management scheme
May Bank of America tightens online security after getting hit by identity thieves
June A German teenager is found guilty in Sasser worm case
September Cisco router flaw sparks battle at Black Hat conference
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