Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer
Dell confirmed that it’s trying to buy the gone-bust Israeli clustered NAS
start-up Exanet after Israel’s Globes news site said Monday that the deal
was in the bag.
There is also speculation that Dell might start selling EMC’s recently
acquired Data Domain deduplication widgetry, the stuff it snatched away from
NetApp last year. Dell has sold EMC’s Clariion arrays for years.
In an e-mailed statement the company said, “Dell has submitted an offer to
purchase Exanet assets, primarily patents and other IP, with court approval
through a Chapter 7 liquidation in Israel. The transaction has not yet been
approved by the Israel court, so we won’t speculate on its completion or
timing.”
Dell is reportedly trying to get the joint on the cheap, sup... (more)
Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer
Dell, which has been promising a little M&A, is buying the gone-bust
Israeli-based clustered NAS start-up Exanet according to Israel's Globes news
site.
Dell is reportedly only paying $12 million for a company whose four investors
kicked in $70 million over the last 10 years.
The acquisition is supposed to give Dell its first R&D center in Israel.
It als... (more)
iPad on Ulitzer
iPad on Ulitzer - There may be little left for Apple to announce about its
purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26
was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets.
The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to
be at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco but now it’s
supp... (more)
"We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business.
Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them...I want to
go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be
evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee Town Hall the other
day according to Wired, MacRummors et al although he may have said "load of
crap" not... (more)
Oracle Journal on Ulitzer
Oracle, sensibly enough from Oracle's point-of-view, has turned off the tap
of development resources on Sun's Project Wonderland, the 100% Java open
source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds.
However, a core group of diehard Wonderlanders means to keep the project
going and is scouting out for-project and non-profit options for becoming
self-su... (more)
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