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Browsing all posts from January, 2012.

Software AG CEO plots Valley invasion by Terracotta army

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Europe’s second largest software company, Software AG, plans on becoming more American and to improve its image as US-based technology. The focus is a 100-person Silicon Valley start up called Terracotta it bought last year and that chief executive Karl-Heinz Streibich said would become the hub of his company’s operations on big data. You can [...]

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Mighty Microsoft re-org seeks spirit of Bill

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Microsoft’s re-organized its Server and Tools unit, one of the company’s business engines, making it more like the Windows operation: marketing has been frozen and engineering elevated in a shake-up making this more than the standard Redmond re-org and pointing to a fundamental change in its cultural and DNA. Read about the growing “Sinofskization” of [...]

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