Posted by: dnegi
on May 26, 2010
With today's US market close Apple has overtaken Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world by market capitalization.
Apple's move comes as the company's iPhone, and now its iPad tablet computer, have taken on more of the personal computing tasks once handled by computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system and other programs.
Market cap is the dollar value of a company's outstanding shares. On Wednesday, Apple Inc.'s shares slipped $1.11 to close at $244.11, making its market cap about $222 billion.
Microsoft Corp.'s stock fell $1.06, or 4.1 percent, to close at $25.01, for market cap of about $219 billion.
Posted by: rpawar
on Oct 14, 2009
After Sun Microsystems purchase of MySQL, I thought it is good for industry as Sun can compete with IBM as Sun have everything that IBM have. Sun was already into servers machines, they have solaris OS, they are application servers, and after MySQL take over, they are end to end technology service provider.
Not to forget only recently Oracle took over BEA system... BEA's Weblogic and IBM Websphere were main competitors in middleware solutions market where Sun and Oracle middleware were small kids... so after BEA takeover Oracle was well placed to overtake IBM in Middleware solution business..
But what we see now? Oracle and IBM fight hard to takeover Sun Microsystems....This new proposition raise thousands of questions to me... But I would like to discuss only two important questions here...
