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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »October 20, 2006 — CIO —
The European Commission Friday approved Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) $4.5 billion acquisition of fellow U.S. software company Mercury Interactive, concluding that the proposed deal would not significantly impede competition.
The companies’ activities overlap in the area of performance management software, a category of software used to quantify the actual performance of applications once they have gone live with users.
But in a statement, the commission—the European Union’s executive and regulatory body—said that adverse effects on competition are unlikely to arise.
The commission had investigated whether the proposed operation could drive competitors out of the market, either because of a bundling of Mercury and HP products, or because other performance management software vendors would be denied access to timely information about HP software.
The commission concluded that the presence of strong competitors in each market would most likely render such strategies unsustainable.
-Paul Meller, IDG News Service (Brussels Bureau)
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