All the week’s IT market news.
Samba slams ‘unacceptable’ Novell-Microsoft deal, 11/13/06
Samba developers have slammed the Microsoft-Novell deal reached earlier this month, calling it “unacceptable” and warning that it may cause significant damage to the open source community.
BMC exceeds second quarter earnings forecast, 11/10/06
BMC software this week announced it had exceeded expectations and reported $387 million in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2007.
Congress sets Alcatel-Lucent hearings, 11/10/06
Another hurdle has cropped up for the merger of Alcatel and Lucent as the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has set a hearing on the national security implications of the deal.
Google downplays video lawsuit, 11/10/06
Google downplayed a lawsuit against its video service, two days after the search giant revealed the legal action.
HP looks to get software house in order, 11/10/06
After a delayed closing of its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive, HP quickly got to work publicly restructuring the company to support its now-doubled software division.
Google filing reveals video lawsuit, 11/09/06
Google revealed that its own online video-sharing service is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit, adding to worries that the company may become the subject of expensive lawsuits related to the YouTube video-sharing service it is buying.
Lenovo reports slimmer profit as sales rise, 11/09/06
Lenovo Thursday reported a slimmer profit for the first half of its fiscal year, despite a rise in sales during the period.
Cisco profit, revenue surge ahead in Q1, 11/08/06
Cisco kept growing fast in its fiscal first quarter, posting revenue of $8.2 billion and net income of $1.6 billion or 26 cents per share.
SAP invests in another NetWeaver partner, 11/08/06
SAP has made an undisclosed investment in a Visiprise, a company that develops integration software for manufacturing companies that use SAP’s NetWeaver platform.
WEB 2.0:AOL wanted to buy YouTube, CEO says, 11/08/06
AOL wanted to acquire YouTube but Google was the only company in a position to put together the $1.65 billion all-stock offer that landed it the deal with the video sharing maverick, AOL’s CEO said Wednesday.
