Archive for December, 2009

Wikipedia has collected no fewer than 7.5 million U.S. dollars in recent weeks. Its founder, Jimmy Wales warmly thank the donors.

After successfully ” collection of donations the brightest of our history », Wikipedia welcomes $ 7.5 million (5.25 million) collected in less than eight weeks.

In a message The founder of the online encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales, Wished to congratulate all its benefactors. He explains: ” It’s amazing, but I’m not surprised. Wikipedia is not funded by advertising, but by you. Wikipedia is the fifth website most visited in the world, and your donations fund our servers and our few employees. »

It must be said that the 14 million encyclopedia entries in 270 languages undergoing rapid development and continuous. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia particular, it is not less 340 million people who visited the site the Wikipedia online last month.

Since its launch in January 2001, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia was a great success. On average, each month nearly 250 million Internet users consult the articles available. All items are then written by Internet and each new visitor can freely change the content after registering with the site.

Jimmy Wales said: ” Your donations help keep Wikipedia free access and no ads. Your donations help provide free access to knowledge around the world. From the free and the free functioning

In these difficult times, the acquisition of Perot Systems, even paid dear, is not an aberration. But, faced with IBM and HP, the battle promises to be revived especially in outsourced services
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Now that the HP EDS, after the IBM Global Services, seems to prove it was time to do so. Before the course can continue to go up …

The value of a company like Dell has everything to gain by further presence in servicesAnd especially in the Health SectorWhere Perot Systems has completed nearly half of its $ 2.8 billion in revenues.
And Dell has this need difficult periodWhere the server market, for example, has slowed considerably, due to the slowdown if not lower IT investment. Its margins have been severely affected, when its investment in distribution begins to pay.

After his breakthrough solutions for data storage, Dell has also confirmed his emergence in the data center through its lead in server virtualization, bringing innovations (for example, the virtualization port of entry / exit. ..)
Dell has all the right reasons in the world to strengthen its building with the provision of specialist services and especially in outsourcing services (IT and networks).

In this sense, the firm of Michael Dell himself up a little more the footsteps of IBM (Global Services) and HP just to get their hands on EDS.

It remains to check the finances of Perot and the loyalty of its customer portfolio. So far, the company created in 1988, was led by an iron hand, she has shown little signs of weakness in its management. Its shiny and turbulent founder, Ross Perot, a wealthy Texan, co-founder of EDS in 1962 (which was sold to Ford) has always held the reins unabated, using its reputation for ‘great mouth “. In 1992, he did not refrain from investing millions of dollars for himself as a candidate for president of the United States, where his group was at the height of its conquests abroad .. .

ATOS And why not?

It is true that this company, EDS challenger, has rarely given the impression of tack. She has managed to persist in balancing its portfolio of customers, between outsourcing networks of large groups abroad. With the crisis of 2001-2002, it had to – it also revised its ambitions-down, but keeping his head above water, thanks to its strong presence in protected areas like the hospital sector, or in the health sector more generally, where he has made over a billion in sales.
Nevertheless, as pointed out by a consultant from Duquesne Research that Perot Systems has refocused much of the United States, which may be an imbalance for Dell! “Athen why not imagine a next step, with another acquisition? For example, with Atos Origin strong presence in Europe …”
Moreover, if our memory serves, there was a time when Perot and Atos had an agreement with International …