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Cloud computing in the air
Banks are becoming more comfortable with cloud computing ( cloud computing news), especially in administrative areas that do not require raw speed. Will they be willing to embrace cloud services via
Linux huge in financial services
Does it surprise you that Linux has become the the most widely used operating system at big Wall Street firms? It might surprise some at first glance, but considering all the problems Sun
The big picture: IBM and the financial services industry
If you aim to really own the financial services industry (financial services news ) as a tech vendor, you had better be more than a product pusher--a simple reseller. It's all about subscription
The real reason to replace your core
Core systems are not easy to change. They're expensive and fraught with uncertainty, and frankly it doesn't happen as much as it used to. Bank Systems & Technology notes the heyday of core change
Core banking systems: The beasts
A core system upgrade is one of those issues that is never far from the minds of bank IT executives. You have to keep up with the times, especially if you're stuck on an aging system, mainframe or
More tech deals to go hostile
Silicon Valley was a place that worked hard to project a genteel, laid-back sort of cool. The reality was always--and still is--much different. It's a dog-eat-dog world, and you've got to have certain table manners. One unspoken rule was that hostile mergers would never work because the real value
Tech deals may help M&A industry
We've all been talking about how the deal economy was tanking. That's true from the financial sponsor point of view. But we've said all along that strategic deals may put a floor on merger activity. Indeed, we've recently seen Microsoft make a bid for Yahoo (a veritable gravy train for the bank
How Yahoo could prevail
Microsoft's bid-to-buy battle for Yahoo has settled into a low intensity tactical affair. It's not likely that we will see a quick solution, barring a surprise announcement by the Yahoo board that it will capitulate. Fortune sketches out one possible scenario. If Yahoo's next earnings report,
