Dell Is on the Acquisition Prowl Again, Now Looking at Quest Software

Another deal to distance itself from consumer PCs.
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The Aircraft Carrier Hewlett-Packard Begins Its Turn (Video)

The turnaround process is about 10 percent to 15 percent complete, CEO Meg Whitman says. That leaves a lot of turning yet to do.
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SAP Enhances Its Cloud by Acquiring Ariba for $4.3 Billion

The deal is SAP’s second of similar size in recent memory. The first one unleashed a series a deals by rivals Oracle and Salesforce.com.
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How Is the Itanium Lawsuit Hurting HP? Let Us Count the Billions of Ways.

Yesterday’s document dump by Oracle shines a light on just how profitable the HP’s Itanium business is. Or rather, was.
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HP Fires Back at Oracle With a Document Drop of Its Own

This one is not quite as juicy, but it’s still interesting.
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Oracle Drops New Documents in Itanium Trial, and They’re Juicy

Oracle takes its case that HP lied to its customers about Itanium to the court of customer opinion with a huge document dump.
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Netsuite Turns Commerce Into a Cloud Service

To the growing list of things that can be sold “as-a-service” you can now add commerce. And create a new acronym: CaaS.
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HP and Oracle Talk Pretrial Trash in Itanium Case

The PR shops at the two companies never miss a chance to slap each other as the Itanium litigation heads toward trial next month.
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Still Stuck: Oracle-Google Trial Jury Has NO Partial Verdict

The jury still can’t decide and will be back next week.
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Oracle and HP: Trial Is On Over Itanium Dispute

There will be no settlement in the dispute between HP and Oracle over support for Intel’s Itanium chip. A lengthy trial is next.
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Oracle Earnings Are Zooming Again