Archive | November, 2012

Cisco to Buy Cariden

It seems like most of my posts these days are about hardware vendors buying software vendors. Here’s another acquisition in the OSS industry’s (not so mini) acquisition bubble. Cisco is buying Cariden for $141 million. Cariden is a small organisation focused on IP/MPLS network planning, a few tens of employees, and revenues estimated to be […]

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Coming Up: Telco Big Data Summit 2012

I’m jolly excited to be heading to Informa’s Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit next week. It says here: “Cutting through the hype, the Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit will bring the telecommunications industry together to discuss data management best practice and strategy – debating when, where, how and why…” It’s […]

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