‘Informatics’ Articles at NetMassimo Blog, Page 63

Dell to acquire Compellent Technologies

Massimo Luciani December 14, 2010 1

Yesterday there was the official announcement of an agreement for Dell to acquire Compellent Technologies, Inc., supplier of virtualized and cloud computing storage solutions. Dell is buying Compellent shares at $27,75 each in cash for a total amount of about $960 millions.

Analog video interfaces will be abandoned but with no hurry

Massimo Luciani December 9, 2010 0

Hardware makers AMD, Dell, Intel Corporation, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display announced their intention to accelerate the adoption of video digital interfaces abandoning the analog ones such as VGA and LVDS.

Google releases Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Massimo Luciani December 7, 2010 0

Yesterday Google announced the release of Android, the operating system for mobile devices, version 2.3, codename Gingerbread with many improvements.

Novell is bought by Attachmate Corporation but many patents go to Microsoft

Massimo Luciani November 23, 2010 1

Novell signed an agreement to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for a value of about 2,2 billions USD. At the same time though there was the announcement of the sale of part of Novell intellectual properties to the CPTN Holdings LLC consortium, which is organized by Microsoft.

Windows 1.0 was launched 25 years ago

Massimo Luciani November 20, 2010 0

Windows creation started at the beginning of the ’80s with the production of a graphic interface that was actually a program for the MS-DOS operating system using concepts inspired to the ones developed some years before by Xerox.