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It has been nearly eight years since EMC acquired VMware. The acquisition announcement went over the newswires on December 15, 2003. EMC paid approximately $635 million for VMware, and Joe Tucci, EMC’s president and CEO, had this to say about ……
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Long before the rash of deaths at the Foxconn Technology Group’s manufacturing facilities in China, another company fought to stem a wave of suicides at its Chinese operations. That company was Huawei Technologies, and its problem with suicidal employees was … Continue reading 
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Juniper Networks today announced a program to discount its EX Series branch offices switches by about 60 percent for new customers trading in old gear from “legacy” suppliers. The offer isn’t open to folks who already own Juniper switches, though it is to Juniper customers of other products, like security, that haven’t yet tried its switches. Read more
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In a recent story in the Ottawa Citizen about Huawei establishing an R&D center in Canada’s capital city, journalist Bert Hill mentioned in passing that the Chinese telecommunications-equipment vendor played no small part in the evisceration and ultimate demise of Nortel Networks, Ottawa’s one-time technology kingpin. Make no mistake, Nortel had enormous self-destructive tendencies, and [...]
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When I first learned of the alleged acquisitive interest Apax Partners was said to have expressed toward Polycom, I dismissed it as nothing more than a media head fake.
Let’s consider: When news of that sort is leaked, it’s made public for a reason. In this context, it seemed, the reason was to bring [...]
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Glassdoor.com, the online career and workplace community, has polled employees across America and compiled its second annual list of the best and worst companies for which to work.
Om Malik has listed the highest-rated and lowest-rated technology companies. Juniper Networks ranks at the top among technology employers, though technically it finishes in a dead heat [...]
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With Cisco announcing its acquisition of Tandberg earlier today, many analysts shifted their attention to Polycom. That’s because Polycom is the number-two player, behind Tandberg, in the videoconferencing-systems market. One could make a logical inference that, with Cisco taking possession of Tandberg, Polycom becomes a takeover target for anybody intent on entering the space.
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We can respectfully argue as to whether 3Com will rise again as a meaningful contender in enterprise networking. My view is that 3Com won’t make the cut, but I respect the opposing positions others have taken.
Some of 3Com’s advocates point to its cash holdings, its low debt, its standing as a low-cost enterprise-networking alternative [...]
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