Today's Top Stories Also Noted: TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Shareholder lawsuit against Siebel; DoCoMo inks deal with SEVEN for corporate email; Oracle plans to double workforce in India; Metric: 57% of users don't encrypt their handheld data; Zeacom launches screen pop component for Microsoft CRM Deals: EMC keeps consolidation train on track
1. Sun expands Unix license with SCO Turns out leading Unix server seller Sun Microsystems, not Microsoft, was the first company to sign on with SCO Group's new Unix licensing plan, the companies announced yesterday. The contract, signed earlier this year, expands Unix licensing rights originally acquired by Sun in 1994 for use in its Solaris operating system. The deal also grants Sun the option to buy more than 200,000 shares of SCO at $1.83 per share. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed, and Sun refused to comment on the option to take a stake in SCO. - check out this CNET story for more on the deal 2. SAP, Red Hat to form Linux partnership German business software giant SAP and top Linux vendor
Red Hat in September plan to announce a partnership to jointly develop
and market open-source applications produced in SAP's LinuxLab. SAP did
not offer any specifics on the deal, but said "We are very confident
that we will have something to sign before TechEd," one of SAP's annual
conferences in September. "They're a certified distributor for SAP, and
we want to put that in a stable framework." Worldwide installations of
SAP applications on Linux doubled last year to about 1,000, and many
other vendors are backing the open-source operating system as it
continues to slowly pick away at Microsoft's market share in the
enterprise. 3. Update: PeopleSoft customers ally against Oracle; states step up review of deal; no white knight Oracle's biggest trouble in acquiring PeopleSoft could come from the customers of its takeover target, according to this piece from CNET. Most of them have no love for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who proclaimed his intention to discontinue the PeopleSoft products on which they spent lots of time and money to install. Oracle has since promised to support PeopleSoft's products for at least 10 years; but the public relations damage has already been done, and many PeopleSoft customers think their collective stance against the deal could prove important to the antitrust dispute that's sure to come. Speaking of which, about 30 state attorneys general are
ramping up their reviews of the deal, signing confidentially agreements
with each other and the U.S. Department of Justice to share information
on Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards and determine whether or not
they want to file antitrust lawsuits against the deal. As for that white knight some people speculated might
come along to rescue PeopleSoft with its own bid, research firm Gartner
says there isn't one. "After examining the opportunities for these other
vendors, we believe PeopleSoft and JD Edwards prospects and users should
consider a 'white knight' scenario as a low probability when considering
their options," said the firm. 4. Infosys Q1 profit jumps 28% Infosys Technologies did its part yesterday to quell any
suggestion that India's IT outsourcing market was faltering by posting a
28 percent jump in first-quarter profit. The company also raised its
full-year outlook, saying earnings per share would be up 17 percent. For
the first quarter, Infosys posted a profit of 2.78 billion rupees (up
from 2.17 billion rupees last year) on sales of 10.8 billion rupees, an
increase of 41.4 percent from a year ago. 5. SunGard offers $105M for Sherwood SunGard Data Systems has offered to acquire U.K.-based insurance
software firm Sherwood International for about $105 million. SunGard,
which provides IT integration help to the financial services industry,
has offered 140 pence per share and hopes to close the deal in about two
months. SunGard was reticent on further details of the deal, citing
provisions in the UK Takeover Code. ALSO NOTED TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Shareholder lawsuit against Siebel > NTT DoCoMo plans to launch a new corporate email service using software from SEVEN that's compatible with both Lotus and Microsoft Exchange. Article > Oracle plans to double its workforce in India to more than 6,000. Story > Metric: 57% of users do not encrypt their handheld data, which poses a problem for CIOs and IT managers struggling with ways to secure the devices in the enterprise. Article > Zeacom launches screen pop component for Microsoft CRM. Story And finally... Duck and cover: Apparently New York's newly published household preparedness manual recommends hiding under a desk, a la 1950s nuclear air raid drills, should disaster strike the city. Story DEALS: EMC keeps consolidation train on track
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