Monthly Archives: September 2009

Twitter Raising $100 Million

Matt | Published: September 24, 2009
Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion Twitter, which has no discernible revenue, is set to raise about $100 million of new funding that would value the company at around $1 billion, a person briefed on the company’s plans said Thursday. Twitter has around 60 employees, or about 1,666,666.67 of investment per [...]
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Ellison Speaks

Matt | Published: September 22, 2009
Ellison: ‘Sun losing $100 million a month’ “We have no interest in being in the hardware business,” said Ellison. I’m sure many of Sun’s current customers wince at that statement. While they’re not going to cease production of Sun hardware altogether they’re only interested in improving it where it suits Oracles bottom line.
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Dell to buy Perot Systems

Matt | Published: September 21, 2009
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion Once the deal is completed, Perot Systems will become Dell’s services unit…
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Open To All

Matt | Published: September 16, 2009
Open Source Should Be Open To All If today you can convince someone to use some Open-Source software package – a document creator, a presentation tool, a web browser, or even a web server – you give yourself the wedge to start pushing for an Open Source operating system. It’s not about being in some elite club. [...]
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Linux Powers Cisco SMB Initiative

Matt | Published: September 16, 2009
Cisco Pursues Small Business With Linux Routers At the heart of many Cisco enterprise routers is the IOS operating system that it develops. When it comes to small business, however, Cisco isn’t pushing IOS — instead, it’s new small business router is powered by Linux. In this case Linux helps Cisco be cheaper, easier for small [...]
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