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and monitoring solutions available today. By managing and optimizing the network from the customer perspective, carriers will be able to proactively build enhanced loyalty, strengthen their brand and increase revenue.” Sounds like a win-win situation for both parties and, hopefully, consumers. Arantech will continue to operate as a stand-alone line of business.
 Openet has recently announced its official entry into the world of cable. The move comes after two years of behind-the-scenes work with cable providers. Openet is offering scalable solutions to cable providers across converged networks, and hopes to be just as successful in this market as it feels it is in the wireless space. “Openet’s pedigree of innovation in the telecom space solidly positions us to provide scalable, intelligent cable solutions that capture value across converged networks,” said Marc Price, Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of the Americas at Openet. “With consumers watching every penny, cable providers need to deliver value through personalized and interactive services. The Transactional Intelligence provided by this new set of solutions is designed to enable that, and cable operators will reap the benefits.”
It looks like the original owners of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are trying to put together some funding to buy the service back from eBay, which purchased it in 2005 for $2.6 billion. EBay, around the same time, decided to announce that it was going to offer an IPO on Skype, after a realization that Skype and eBay don’t integrate in any particularly useful ways. Skype, itself, is quite a useful standalone application (as I’m sure many of our readers would attest to), and stock players may want to keep an eye on this situation. Who knows what Skype could turn into if controlled by a major telecom player…
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Amdocs scores another win as they have been selected by Clearwire Communications LLC, a subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, for a multi-year agreement for the license and implementation of Amdocs CES 7.5 products and managed services. “As Clearwire continues to expand our nationwide mobile WiMAX network, we are investing in proven technology to enable us to launch new products quickly and deliver a powerful customer experience,” said Jeff Pearson, vice president of information technology for Clearwire. “By partnering with Amdocs, we will deploy an integrated platform to support a growing customer base and to collaborate more effectively with our wholesale partners.” This is just the latest in a fairly constant string of Amdocs customer wins. It makes one curious to know if Amdocs has even noticed the bumps in the economy…
Oracle also has some good news on the product-usage front. United Online, a provider of consumer products and services over the Internet, has upgraded to the Oracle® E-Business Suite Release 12. Why would they do such a thing? Probably because they felt like it was an excellent maneuver. “United Online relies on Oracle every day to manage vital financial information and procedures, automating accounting processes to keep our financials in strict order,” said Craig Williams, Technology Director of Business Applications, United Online. “The newest version, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, incorporates the pressing technology needs our global organization requires to keep the business foundation strong and flexible. With the help of Oracle Consulting, the upgrade was fast, easy and comprehensive, enabling our organization to drastically change accounting across the entire corporation in less than three months, driving business value.”
In other exciting Oracle news, the company has purchased Sun for $7.4 billion. With said acquisition, Oracle, a known software vendor, takes another step into the hardware market. With the purchase, Oracle is now in possession of Solaris and Java, the latter being the platform over which the Oracle Fusion Middleware has been built. “The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “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.
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