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Acquire
and grow?
The deal that everyone said would not happen, has happened.
Closing at $10.3 billion, the Oracle-PeopleSoft story is far
from over. Oracle begins 2005 facing some tough questions
put forth by PeopleSoft’s customers and analysts.
Upfront
Canon
India to focus on digital cameras in 2005
Canon India has outlined its roadmap for the coming fiscal
and has identified the digital camera business as its biggest
growth engine. According to Alok Bharadwaj, vice president,
Volume Group, Canon India, “Our digital camera business
has grown by more than 400 percent year-on-year in 2004.
LG
arm sets-up development centre in Bangalore
LG CNS Global Pvt Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the
South Korean IT services firm LG CNS Global, has set-up its
software development centre in Bangalore to provide specialised
services for enterprises outside the LG group.
Dax
takes the alliance route
A lack of competing products has dented the ability of many
players in the Indian router market to take on market leader
Cisco. One such player, Chennai-based Dax Networks is sewing
up a string of alliances to fill the gaps in its product portfolio.
Securing
content
Time was when content filtering solutions were used primarily
to block access to inappropriate websites. With Net usage
increasing dramatically, companies have had to come to terms
with the loss of sensitive information and a dip in employee
productivity.
“Tape
will still be a preferred choice for storage”
StorageTek bets on its tape library technology to push its
products in the price-sensitive Indian market
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