Archive for April, 2009
Oracle buys Sun Microsystems
After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per share.
The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in the press release, “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.
This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, also in the press release, “From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace.
source – http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-buys-sun
Google PageRank Update April 2009 – Q2 2009 PR Update
Google did it again but little late. It was supposed to be in end of march. This is not done yet as different datacenters showing different results for PR. It started yesterday and still in progress. My sites are going up and down.
Some PR checker showing I am good PR but some showing negative. I can’t post my stats this time as I am not sure. I can’t see any big changes in Google Algorithm this time with PR. It is same as last update.
Google also updated Toolbar PR, It was updated last time at starting of this year.
As soon this update wil finish I will check my sites again and post progress of my sites here.
Alexa updated Design
Finally Alexa updated their design to a new cool looking style. It was a boring and old looking site but new design making look better.
They have updated lot of things including Navigation, the way data shows etc. I think they also changed their method to calculate Alexa rank because most of webmaster sites yesterday rank is not so good as compared to other day but traffic is still same. And my non-webmaster sites have better rank now.
you can read more here.
