ENTERPRISE NEWS
SCC ready to enter the cloud
UNITED KINGDOM
UK-based systems integrator SCC is to acquire Ares Infrastructures’ Maintenance & Hosting division, following Ares’ strategic repositioning of its ITS division. “This acquisition will enable SCC not only to
strengthen its presence on the French IT market, but also to broaden our services capacities to the datacenter,” said Director of SCC in France, Jacques Vincent, an essential asset that SCC lacked in order to implement new technologies, including the servers’ and desktops’ virtualisation. “My priority will be to develop the new
acquisition and to relay this offer in France,” Vincent added in an interview. SCC French manager estimates at about €17m the services revenue of this new activity, an operation that should happen in the current year, but that is still to be approved by the regulatory authorities. The announcement comes after Ares
announced disappointing results and decided in its recovery plan to concentrate its ITS division resources on value added proximity services and applicative management. Ares’ maintenance activities include
office automation, operation and hosting of infrastructures; they employ 330 people, and had a revenue of €12.8m in 2009. When the operation will be concluded, Ares’ three divisions will remain IT Services, Integration of Applicative Solutions, and ARES Innovation & Design, representing about 670 people. SCC had already acquired Ares’ IT infrastructures
division in 2008. On the eve of the arrival of SaaS and Cloud Computing, Ares’ choice to sell its IT maintenance activities seems clearly due to the group’s incapacity to support this activity at a sufficient level of expertise.
www.scc.com www.ares.fr
Crossbeam appoints new European supporters
CZECH REPUBLIC
UNITED KINGDOM GERMANY
SPAIN
CROSSBEAM Systems, which does security platforms for high-performance networks, has appointed a bunch of new support partners in Europe. Corpus Solutions in the Czech Republic,
Integralis in the United Kingdom, Pan Dacom in Germany and Unitronics in Spain have become Crossbeam accredited support partners (CASP- Support), delivering 24/7 technical support services
Oracle tightens
up on Solaris use
EUROPE
WITH announcements due this week on its plans to bring on board the Sun resellers in Europe, Oracle has meanwhile changed its contract terms for Solaris to stop customers using it as a free Unix substitute. Trade publication InfoWorld looked at current and older versions of the Solaris 10 licence and discovered that Oracle has added new terms to the Solaris 10 deal including: “Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded software.” Previously, users could simply register a valid e-
mail address, receive an Entitlement Document and use Solaris 10 without a time limit as long as they didn’t need support. The new terms appear to limit use of Solaris to a 90-day period unless the user obtains a support contract from Oracle. Along with these new license terms come
in addition to their own value-added services. “As we continue to expand Crossbeam’s global
footprint, it’s imperative that we maintain the highest levels of service excellence that customers have come to expect from us and our partner ecosystem,” said Keyur Patel, director of Worldwide Technical Support for Crossbeam. “We carefully qualify and certify partners through the CASP program to ensure customers receive world-class support no matter where they’re located.”
www.crossbeamsystems.com
enterprise news round-up
The Irish Software Innovation Network
has launched a ‘green cluster’ of indigenous software companies, multinational companies and academics to support the work of IBM’s Smarter Cities Technology Centre, which was opened in Dublin last month.
London has returned to top spot for technology IPOs in Europe, says PWC. Following a barren 2009 for technology, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in London in Q1 2010 signpost a more fertile year ahead, it says. There were seven technology IPOs on European exchanges in the last quarter with an offering value of €667m. The majority of money raised was in London - €353m compared to €314m in Europe.
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Clarity, specialist in Unified NGOSS Telecommunications Operational Management solutions, has appointed Tony Garcia as Vice President Global New Business & Alliances. He joins Clarity from HP and EDS where he was Head of Business Transformation, EMEA.
BSO Network Solutions, the Next Generation
Operator specialist has named François Devienne as its new international Chief Technology Officer (CTO), based on his ten-year background within the telecoms and security markets (with Cisco, BT Global Services, Netasq, Radware and Brocade).
Extreme Networks fell back in Europe in the last quarter. For the third quarter, net revenue
in North America was $32.6m (previous quarter $27.5m) and revenue in EMEA was $31.0m ($37.8m).
Chris Holden the Strategic Marketing Manager Carrier EMEA with Corning Ltd has been elected as the next President of the
Board at the Fibre to the Home Council
Europe, becoming the fifth person to hold this position since the Council was founded in 2004. Chris Holden replaces outgoing President Karel Helsen.
Jörg Seeger, formerly EMEA Sales Director for Oracle, has joined acrolinx as General Manager Europe. The company specialises in Information Quality Management solutions.
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revisions to the support policy. In order to qualify for a support contract, Oracle now ties the support to both hardware and software.
www.oracle.com
OUR ANALYSIS
These changes to Solaris licensing and support fall hardest on those looking for a free or low-cost Unix upgrade path. Oracle seems to be focusing its attention on customers willing to buy into full hardware and software support contracts. For mission-critical applications, customers will need to choose between embracing Oracle or looking for alternative OS solutions.
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