* Oracle signs deal to buy PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion * Foundry adds oomph to data center appliances * HP bulks up storage portfolio * Cogent expanding base through buys * Today on Layer 8
Today’s bombshell is brought to you by Oracle and PeopleSoft. After a long and emotional year and a half, PeopleSoft’s board has given in to Oracle’s insistent and hostile takeover bid. Get more on what this might mean to Oracle and PeopleSoft customers as this story develops throughout the day. Oracle signs deal to buy PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1213oraclsigns.html?net
Today’s bombshell is brought to you by Oracle and PeopleSoft. After a long and emotional year and a half, PeopleSoft’s board has given in to Oracle’s insistent and hostile takeover bid. Get more on what this might mean to Oracle and PeopleSoft customers as this story develops throughout the day.
Oracle signs deal to buy PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1213oraclsigns.html?net
Foundry adds oomph to data center appliances
Data center servers have enough to worry about, what with processing gazillions of database and application transactions and all. That’s the logic behind Foundry Networks’ latest appliances, which take on some jobs so that the servers don’t have to worry about them – including some key security-related tasks.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304foundry.html?net
HP bulks up storage portfolio
HP this week introduced a mix of hardware and software designed to help customers align the value of their data with the resources used to store it.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1210hpstor.html?net
Cogent expanding base through buys
Cogent Communications is continuing to gobble up acquisitions, with its focus now turning more to buying customers rather than physical assets. The company recently inked its sixth acquisition of the year – 13 since 2001 – when it paid an undisclosed price for 2,400 dedicated Internet access customers in 23 U.S. markets from Web hosting service provider Verio.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304cogent.html?net
Today on Layer 8 – where it’s always 4th and long:
More stupid user password trouble; Google knows what you want; DirecTV hacker sentenced to jail; and the winner of the latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
