In a move echoing HP purchasing Autonomy, Oracle takes over unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions provide Endeca for an undisclosed sum. 

Oracle will use the purchase to means to provide "more comprehensive unstructured data management into Oracle’s engineered systems” via Endeca analytics software. 

MDEX is the core Endeca technology powering 2 products-- Endea InFront (a customer experience management platform) and Lattitude (a business intelligence platform).

Like a number of other vendors (including IBM, Read more...

The Wall Street Journal reports HP may not carry out the PC part of Great Garage Sale after all, as post-Apotheker CEO Meg Whitman is currently busy "crunching the numbers of the proposal by her predecessor."

Whitman wants to make the decision regarding the HP PC division's fate by the end of October.

Apotheker wanted to turn HP into something like IBM, selling hardware and software to an enterprise client base. IBM sold off its PC business to Lenovo back in 2005.

The PC business totals $40 billion from a $126BN in HP 2010 sales, and $2BN from Read more...

Networking solutions manufacturer TRENDnet opens a Netherlands-based distribution centre in order to service Europen markets. 

The company will initially stock the top 40% from its 350-plus networking hardware portfolio at the Netherlands facility-- which should result in faster delivery times (originally the company shipped products from California), lower minimum order thresholds, reduced delivery costs and the elimination of customs and VAT costs. 

"Customers will benefit from increased margins and stocking flexibility," says Stephanie Xian, Global Read more...

HP completes the $12 billion takeover of the biggest UK software concern, Autonomy-- touchstone of the "strategic transformation" towards enterprise software costing ex-CEO Leo Apotheker his job last month. 

The purchase announcement and excessive costs involved caused  HP stock prices (and reputation) to plummet. Not that the decisions to close down the webOS unit and dumping its PC unit as part of the Great Garage Sale helped much, mind.

Even through Apotheker got replaced, analysts say it would have been impossible for HP get out of the Autonomy Read more...

Massive severance packages and golden parachutes are everything but news, but it's always worth pointing them out. Like in the case ex-HP CEO Leo Apotheker, who leaves the company with a very tidy sum-- a $7.2 million, to be precise.

In additional, he also receives a $2.4 million bonus and $3.7M in stock, as the regulatory filing from the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows. And HP will even pay the lawyers negotiating the package!

One would think Apotheker led HP to a prosperous new golden age, rather than getting kicked out after 11 Read more...

The undisputed leader of the computer, mobile phone, entertainment industries, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday at the age of 56.

All the best eulogies were already written when he stepped down on Aug. 24th as CEO of Apple...and most of us knew the only reason he would walk away from Apple would be his own ultimate demise.

Steve wanted to changed the world and he did. Held up as the consummate businessman, ironically Steve actually was an anti-businessman...a cult legend who stood against much of the business culture. Frank Sinatra may have sung the song, but Steve Jobs really lived "I Did It My Way."

You heard a lot about his business life when he gave up Apple. Now you'll start to hear a lot more about Steve as a man. Now when his private life will be less guarded and admirers, deprived of his public persona, will seek further insight from his life.