Friday, June 20, 2008

What's new in week 25, 2008

Friday, 2008-06-20, Copenhagen

Allen System Group, ASG, is in negotiations to have another major acquisition. ASG is one of the largest privately owned software companies in this world. It is no doubt that this acquisition will lead to an improvement in its business process management technology flagship in the market.

High performance computing is definitely a continuously-growing market in the enterprise world. Just like an IDC expert said recently, the HPC market has over 10 billion usd market nowadays and it is still growing over 10 percent per year. One interesting observation is that Microsoft is also having over 1000 developers working at its HPC lab. So even the current market leaders are HP and IBM, or perhaps Sun. Other vendors are eagerly joining the competition.

More enterprise vendors are looking into how their products can have a Google version. For example, BI vendor Panorama has been launching its BI tools on top of Google spreadsheet applications. It seems that Google is also becoming a name of a certain kind of OS.

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