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Posted by Miko Matsumura on Jul 25, 2006 04:03 PM
HP will pay $52 per share to Mercury shareholders, representing a 33 percent premium to the Tuesday closing price of Mercury shares on the pink sheets. The company was delisted from Nasdaq in January for failing to file its financial reports on time amid an investigation into its accounting practices regarding stock options. Mercury had recently been embroiled in an options scandal which consumed top management including Ammon Landon, former CEO of Mercury. This combined entity provides for a powerful Enterprise System Management offering with HP OpenView and industry leading testing tools such as Winrunner and Loadrunner.
This acquisition finally closes the chapter on the options scandal, which had been cleared up from the perspective of the accounting department several weeks ago. This acquisition was under a cloud of speculation as investors felt that the current management was still being scrutinized by regulators and such an acquisition would provide a clean slate to Mercury customers, suppliers and employees. HP has a "squeaky clean" management reputation, and this transaction should help ease any fears about any future issues.
Of note to SOA watchers, this acquisition includes the Systinet division, a market leader in SOA Governance products. The combination of HP Openview Enterprise System Management capabilities with Mercury and Systinet Governance capabilities provides a powerful suite for centralized IT to control and manage enterprise-wide software initiatives such as SOA. The acquisition of Systinet by Mercury was announced on January 6th of 2006.
Introducing Project Zero: Building RESTful services for your Web application
The Agile Business Analyst: Skills and Techniques needed for Agile
Rainmaking - IBM's software virtualization strategy (Jerry Cuomo CTO blog)
Ensuring SOA success with effective, automated control throughout the lifecycle
Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it's time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs.
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.
In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera, which is now available as open source.
It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the recent resurgence of the concept is also being applied to networking, storage, and application infrastructure.
In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them.
In this article, Adrien Louis and Marc Dutoo discuss the differences and relative merits of using orchestration vs. routing in a typical ESB setup, and discuss various implementation options.
Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for usage, Spring Batch architecture, scaling, example code, failures and retrying, and the future roadmap.
Developer Jay Fields draws on his experiences as a ThoughtWorks consultant to describe effective user story estimation techniques.
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