- Candle makes middleware move.
Candle Corp., the Santa Monica, Calif., supplier of enterprisewide systems, network and application management solutions, will acquire AMSYS North America, a software integration services organization specializing in installation, configuration, development, and training services for middleware and MQSeries commercial messaging systems. The move is part of Candle's strategy to offer middleware ......
- BEA Acquires Component Consulting Firm Specializing In
Java, EJB And CORBA.
BEA Systems Inc., a San Jose, Calif., developer of Web and middleware solutions, has acquired Component Systems, a Silicon Valley consulting firm specializing in designing and developing component architectures for very large-scale e-commerce applications at companies such as Amazon.com, DHL Systems and Norwest Bank. Component Systems consultants will form the ......
- Sybase provides FedEx with databases, middleware,
development tools worldwide.
Under a huge enterprise arrangement with Sybase Inc., Federal Express Corp. will deploy Sybase databases, middleware and application development tools across its global enterprise. Sybase will also provide FedEx with onsite support and services through its Sybase Professional Services organization. While exact terms of the contract are being kept confidential, ......
- Global Trends & Market Shifts: Texas, China, and Mexico
In 2005, the United States' North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico, contributed about 30 percent of the overall value of U.S. international merchandise trade - a vast majority of hemispheric, north-south trade. Meanwhile, the threelargest economies in East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) contributed 21.9 percent, ......
- Emerging economies create powerful global
competitors.
A new competitive force is emerging from the world's most rapidly developing countries: a large group of companies that are challenging the world's leading corporations. Until recently, there were only about a dozen or so companies from emerging markets that could be described as being global competitors. "Today there are ......
- EDS sells mainframe app.
The Syllogisteks Company of St. Louis, Mo., has acquired the Multiple Report Creation System (MRCS), a report-writing software application, from Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Originally developed by McDonnell Douglas, MRCS was acquired by EDS in 1991 when it bought McDonnell's IS business. Syllogisteks CEO Thomas Smith was one of the ......
- Chapter I: economic prospects and policy
issues.
The expansion remains broadly on track, with global growth forecasts for 2005 and 2006 largely unchanged from the last World Economic Outlook (Table 1.1 and Figure 1.1), although risks are still slanted to the downside. Following a temporary slowdown in mid-2004, global GDP growth picked up through the first quarter ......