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March 2009

First Light of US Economic Improvement?

30 March 2009

Last week in the US we may have seen the first light of some economic improvement.

The US has a big knock-on effect to the rest of the world so this could be good news for all.

Three important measures of US economic performance all moved in the right direction last week:

1) both existing and new home sales rebounded by around 5% in February after a very poor January
2) consumer spending rose for a second consecutive month

IBM Could Be Acquiring Sun

18 March 2009

It is rumoured that IBM may acquire Sun Microsystems possibly within the next two weeks. Nothing has been confirmed as yet but IBM is likely to pay at least $6.5 billion. That would equate into a premium of more than 100% over Sun's closing price on Tuesday

Tridion Performance

13 March 2009

Tridion (WCM player) was acquired by SDL for $94m in May 2007. Looking at SDL's year-end financial results I can see that Tridion saw revenue growth of 16% in 2008. Tridion’s revenues in 2008 were just under $49M which is not as high growth as they achieved in 2007 but still significant.

SDL Tridion now claims about 600 customers in total which is a solid increase up from the 500 a year ago. The company is strong in Europe, with its largest market in North America.

Getting Your Ducks Aligned for Peace of Mind and Acquisition Success

5 March 2009

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” Robert H. Schuller
What's Waiting For The Unprepared Down the Acquisition Path? OK, so we know that the failure rate with acquisitions is so high that such work should commence with a government health warning but let’s focus a bit more on the important issue of why. Well as always in business there is not a single simple answer. If it was so simple then the problem would not exist in the first place. You could just simply log-on to one of those specialist blogs written by some highly irritating industry know-it-all and find out what the problem is and how to…………………. Errrr??? Anyway where was I.