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  • eSec to go in reverse acquisition

    One of Australia's only publicly listed information security companies, eSec, will next week disappear when gobbled up by Perth based outsourcer ASG after the anticipated approval of the deal at a shareholders meeting scheduled for Thursday.

  • Oracle e-mails urge scare tactics

    Three days before Oracle publicly announced its intention to buy PeopleSoft, the deal was already viewed as a way to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of PeopleSoft customers.

  • Top five tech takeovers that shook the world

    Microsoft last week launched a hostile US$44.6bn takeover bid to buy Web giant Yahoo. If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions the tech sector has witnessed in recent years.

  • HP/EDS preps for Aussie restructure

    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

  • HP job cuts dangerous, warns UK union

    The UK Public and Commercial Services Union this week said the jobs of former civil servants employed by EDS could be axed, following the takeover of the company by HP.

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Features and Case Studies (3)

  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

  • M&A; Marry in haste, repent at leisure

    Don't rush into a Vegas-style marriage when acquiring a company, warns Ram Gupta of PeopleSoft. Take your time and get to know each other properly during the 'dating' phase.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

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