Another buyout. Who’s next?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Lokesh Pant

Another big acquisition from shopaholic giant. Finally Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Anyways..I’ll leave other analysts to comment on hardware/storage/cloud computing and other areas. I am more interested to speculate the future of software products from Sun, example Sun Portal, Access Manager, Directory Server, and other open source projects. Here is my take in that – [...]

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Oracle-Bea, Portals,Portals everywhere !!

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Lokesh Pant

Is the portal market going to see another acquisition by Oracle? Though Bea has denied the deal of $6.66 bn as “too low”, but as we know Oracle has a history of acquiring BIG companies and maintaining multiple products of same line. BEA and Oracle own two Portal products each (Aqualogic and Weblogic) and (Oracle [...]

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“Portals” and “Portal-like”

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Lokesh Pant

Few days’ back I got to know about the something called “portal-like” . wow…a new word and a new concept after Collaboration, Web2.0 and SOA in the portal space. Drilled down a little deeper I came to know that this concept make sense when it comes to mid-size enterprise ,here it goes…. Portals Implementation gives [...]

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Commercializing Open Source

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Lokesh Pant

The cloud thickens on the strategy of the open source vendors….“The enterprise fraternity” are keen on acquiring smaller rival companies with open sourced software and after acquisition, only unveil a part of the software that remained open sourced before, Then doesn’t the whole idea of open source get flouted? Another heating debate could be on [...]

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