http://nitinbadjatia.com Thought Stream Weblog Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:43:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a1ad88649666f38cb720382bf227d107?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://nitinbadjatia.com http://nitinbadjatia.com/2008/05/19/hp-eds-is-the-most-interesting-story-of-the-last-month/ http://nitinbadjatia.com/2008/05/19/hp-eds-is-the-most-interesting-story-of-the-last-month/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 20:00:54 +0000 nitinbadjatia http://www.nitinbadjatia.com/?p=423 Continue reading →]]> In a month when all the buzz about the on again, off again (and apparently on again) Ballmer-Yang waltz dominated the news, the HP-EDS deal may quietly emerge as the most significant technology consolidation we’ve seen in quite a while. Om Malik postulates that the real play here is not aimed at IBM, rather it is about establishing a dominant position on the cloud, just as utility computing reemerges as the ‘next big thing’. While I haven’t looked at the details of this proposed merger, I think the ‘cloud’ angle – as presented by Om – makes a lot of sense. I’ve link to Om’s post above; it is worth reading.

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