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Technology Business Research, Inc.
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Oracle continues to wrestle with hardware, even as software drives growth. With a $2 billion Exadata pipeline, a $120 million deduction off operating expenses, unexpected contributions from Sun middleware and Phase Forward, and nearly 24% year-to-year growth in services revenue, Oracle is steaming ahead with its systems vendor strategy. Oracle President Safra Catz reported during the calendar ...
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Technology Business Research, Inc.
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The IT market is in a state of change, as both consumer- and commercial-focused hardware vendors adjust their strategies to accommodate shifting demand. As evidenced by TBR’s 3Q10 Computer Business Quarterly Benchmark, IT hardware vendors are jockeying for position in key growth areas, such as tablets, cloud computing and integrated, purpose-built solutions, while focusing short-term growth and ...
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Technology Business Research, Inc.
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As a major IT supplier to businesses, HP subsequently suffered first a slowing of growth and then three quarters of year-to-year revenue declines, from which it emerged in 4Q09. Now, businesses have resumed purchasing, apparently confident in the global economic recovery, and HP is benefiting. The company posted year-to-year revenue growth of 12.8%, assisted by about four points of favorable ...
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Technology Business Research, Inc.
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TBR believes Oracle made a measured decision to discontinue development for Itanium processors to reduce a competitive threat to its own SPARC-based hardware in the enterprise server and high-performance computing market. HP – producer of the Integrity line of Itanium-based servers – is the immediate target, while Intel – producer of the chip that was supposed to replace the x86 architecture – is ...
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Technology Business Research, Inc.
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HP reported a strong quarter, with better-than-expected revenue and margin improvements. As a huge global vendor, HP’s performance reflects, in part, a recovering global economy, including resurgent economies in emerging markets.
In the Personal Systems Group, HP’s PC division, HP posted double-digit year- to-year unit and revenue gains in both notebook and desktop PCs. Notebook unit sales ...
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