Acquisition of Perot: Dell is reinforced in the services blows of billion dollars

Business – the texan S `offers Perot Systems for the trifle of 3,9 billion dollars in order to S `align on the offer D `HP and D `IBM.

In lose speed on the march of the PC, will confront chaotic financial rsultats, has dcid D `to employ the great ways to rectify the bar. The texan group announces indeed the repurchase of Perot Systems (founds by the tycoon texan Ross Perot) in order to be reinforced in the data processing departments.

Going up of the transaction: 3,9 billion dollars is 2,7 billion D `euros! The objective is clear: to reinforce its positions in the services, segment of march in growth O HP (which has rachet EDS for 13,9 billion dollars) and IBM rgnent in matres.

It S `acts D `a tender offer the friendly one. Dell proposes 30 dollars per action
Perot whereas this one S `tablissait 18 dollars approximately in end of
week dernire, is a premium of 67,5%.

stratgic Diversification

For Dell, the stake is to diversify its sources of revenue. The world numro two of the PC draws 60% from its figure D `businesses of the sale D `computers, against 33% at HP. The difficults of the world march of the PC seems to have acclr the catch of dcision of the ct of Dell…

Rappelons that the glove had “; put ct”; last June a trsor of 10 billion dollars in order to raliser of the oprations of external growth.

the new unit (Dell +Perot) would owe gnrer term a figure D `businesses of 16 billion dollars, Perot alone has gnr almost 3 billion dollars of incomes at the time of its last exercise.

It undertaken is a supplier
D `applications and D `infrastructures, of solutions of business process, and ralise of the consulting. It is prsente in the sectors of the bank, of
sant, of the insurance, tlcoms, of the nergie.

the opration, D `now and dj validates by the councils D `administration
from the two parts, will be concluded, probably in January and Perot Systems
will become the branch « Services» of Dell.

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the BNF ngocierait with Google the numrisation dune started from its funds

Technologie – the daily newspaper the Platform rvle that Bibliothque Nationale of France would have entam discussions with Google in order to entrust to him the numrisation dune started from its funds. A dmarche that the BNF had jusqu prsent refuses.

the BNF (Bibliothque national of France) could entrust Google the numrisation D `part of its inheritance. C `is this qu `affirms the Platform in its dition D `aujourd `today.

“; Our ngociations with Google could succeed D `here some mois”; , dclare Denis Bruckmann, director gnral assistant of the BNF to the daily newspaper.

a change D `attitude radical since the BNF had crushed brick such a proposal ds 2005 and dvelopp of sound ct the Europeana project, embryo of future bibliothque the europenne numric which was born in November 2008 by gathering the resources numrises the bibliothques ones of 25 tats members.

fouling Domination

It S `acted to fight against the ambitions of Google and “; the risk D `a fouling domination of Amrique”; , according to the terms of the former owner of the BNF, Jean-Nol Jeanneney, with a common and powerful offensive.

But the numrisation has a cot trs, including for the BNF. The numrisation of the works of IIIme Rpublique would only cost it between 50 and 80 million D `euros explains the Platform. However the means of the BNF are much less important (budget of 5 million D `euros per annum).

This reversal 180 degrs thus illustrates the impossibilit France to carry out well the numrisation of its inheritance, a dfi however crucial for the future gnrations.

the free service matter by Google has dj T adopt in the world by 29 bibliothques main roads, like Bodleian Library D `Oxford. In France, the bibliothque one of Lyon works dj with Google.

Reste that the project has suscit much the polmiques ones since are launching in 2006. In the United States, two associations dfendant the rights D `author had port felt sorry for against Google.

has T concluded the Anne dernire but still owes tre valid by dpartement the amricain of Justice. The Union europenne also leans on this file. Because Google intends to transform itself into bookseller by marketing the works numriss. (Eureka Press)

Sony will launch the PS3 Slim dbut September 299 euros

Technology – the new version of the console will be smaller, more lgre and less greedy in nergie. It will be markets to leave September 1, 299 dollars (299 euros in Europe). Lactuelle PS3 passes to Mrs. tariff ds aujourdhui.

C `is the occasion of the living room GamesCon 2009 Cologne in Germany
that Sony Computer Entertainment Kazuo Hirai prsident it has dvoil the PS3 Slim.

It is 32% smaller and 36% more lgre that PlayStation 3 current, and
34% D `nergie in less with caractristic techniques will consume
identical and an hard drive of 120 Go.

It will be especially less chre, sold 299
euros at the time of its exit on September 1. The price
S `applies also the current PS3 80 Go which passes 399 299 euros ds
aujourd `today.

Better ratio qualit-price

“; C `TAIT the moment for us to change gives it. In these times of crisis, much of families prfraient to wait before D `to buy a PS3, anticipating a fall of prix”; explain Peter Dille, vice-prsident Marketing branch of.

For him, the PS3 offer quipement dsormais the best report/ratio/price.

“; For 299 euros, you become acquror D `a game console, D `a Blu-Ray reader and D `a disc of 120 Go”; recall it.

Remains knowledge how old the modle will be able to survive the exit
of Slim. Will Sony still lower its price or will leave it the rays?

the price drops of the Sony console conceals trs awaited, of many analysts
L `estimating essential so that Sony can remake its delay on Nintendo
(Wii) and Microsoft (Xbox 360).

“; I think that these price drops arrive too late. In the short run, we think that the sales will increase. But on the long run, it will be difficult since Microsoft and Nintendo also will lower their prix”; concludes Colin Sebastian, cabinet Lazard Capital Markets. (Eureka Press)

Pourquoi Windows 7 dition Familiale sold moiti less expensive in England?

Stratgie – On the other side of the channel, ldition Familiale of Windows 7 east proposes 65 pounds is 106 dollars then the which sold almost double (200 dollars) in the United States. Explanations on this price while Microsoft France Na not wish sexprimer on this tariff policy.

Amazon. Co. the U.K. and Play. COM market both
version complte of Windows 7 Premium Home (Family) 65 pounds (106 dollars), is
almost the moiti of the price pratiqu in the United States (200 dollars).

On its site,
Amazon announces a reduction of 57% compared to the initial price of 150 pounds. Aprs
vrification, it S `avre that the product can tre livr in France but it will be
of course in english language version.

Contact by ZDnet. Fr, Microsoft France
N `does not have wish to comment on this tariffing.

Version E

According to our English confrres of
ZDnet. the U.K., the explanation could come from the version
E of Windows 7 initially prvue. It S `acts of the dition europenne
deliver without Internet Explorer 8 that Microsoft had D `access annonc for Commission europenne.

This Windows 7th
not being able in fact not to exist in version « Setting &amp day; #187; but qu `in version
« Complte » , a lower price, near to that of the versions « Setting &amp day; #187;
had T calculation in consquence.

But, the version which propose Amazon. Co. the U.K. and Play. COM is well
that including/understanding IE8. It S `undoubtedly acts of that which introduces the choice of
navigator with. But this new version of Windows 7 must still obtain
L `approval of the autorits europennes.

would have seems it devanc
their rponse by authorizing the English merchants to sell Windows 7 with IE8
while maintaining the tariff prvu for Windows 7th. In France, Amazon. Fr and them
other retailers consults always propose the version E in prcommande.
(Eureka Press)

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Karavel-Promovacances consolidates and optimizes the qualit service

tude of case – As a remdier the htrognit of his systmes, the tour operator has consolid on a single bay SAN Fibre Chanel, SAN iSCSI and NAS. This solution enables him to doffrir diffrents levels of service, via classes of storage.

Karavel-Promovacances, producer and distributor of voyages, fdre dsormais, with the wire of acquisitions, six marks on Internet. The systme D `information reflte these successive oprations of external growth, D `as much as repurchases N `do not have T immdiatement followed by a vast building site of rurbanisation of the infrastructure.

In a sector of tourism caractris by margins rduites, management by the cots is sometimes drastic, and the always welcome conomies. The htrognit of the systmes, which has consquences in terms D `administration, D `incidental and of nergtic consumption, adds to the needs for continuit D `activit, dbouchent in 2007, then 2008 on projects of rorganisation.

7 To of discs SATA additions 7 To of discs Fibre Chanel

a first SAN, ddi a critical application, is dploy in 2007. In April 2008, a building site S `opens for a deuxime ENV. This one owes tre rattach the whole of the Karavel-Promovacances waiters, and in particular the virtual machines VMware, of growing number (150 waiters term). But another merge need.

« The preliminary draft prvoyait the setting in production D `one. But it appeared that we could galement consolidate our file servers disperss on several Paris sites and in rgions and, until-L, administrs sparment. The premire proposal of LED-EMC comprised a bay SAN and, for the service of files, a tte NAS spare » , dtaille Guillaume Postaire, responsible infrastructure of the tour operator.

the consolidation will be finally still accentuates grce the adoption D `a solution unifying storage. In a single bay (Celerra NS482-F), Karavel-Promovacances thus will gather SAN FC, SAN iSCSI and NAS. An architecture, galement compatible FCoE (Fibre Chanel over Ethernet), which enables him to concentrate in a single point storage, to simplify the administration while offering diffrents levels of service, via classes of storage (tiering).

No hard drives SSD

« The bay intgre several types of discs with performance levels diffrents: 7 To of discs, for the filing or the storage of the mdias. Another third of 7 To, for the most critical volumes and more sollicits, includes/understands to him discs in 300 and 140 Go » explain Guillaume Postaire.

« The tiering has T dfini upstream SANATORIA project. We N `did not set up of solution of for dplacer steals it the files. The transfer, for example of stocks volumes on discs FC towards supports SATA, is done manually. The firmware of the bay intgre the tools allowing the dplacements hot give, without interruption of service » he adds

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Mrs. if bay EMC supports them, Karavel-Promovacances N `did not retain this option, for questions of cots and non-adquation with its needs. No application of the tour operator ncessite this day capacits in terms of power and latency offered by the SSD.

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will Zune HD from Microsoft be a iPod killer?

Technology – Available of Pr-order to the United States since Thursday, the new walkman of Microsoft will be available to leave September 15. Its tactile notch OLED 3,3 inches, its capacits of readings HD and its positioning aggressive price make a srieux competitor for liPod of it. The proof in vido.

Microsoft has officialis the coming out date of Zune HD, sound
walkman numric grce to which it espre to be able finally srieusement to compete
with Apple. It will arrive on September 15 but is dj available in Pr-order
in the United States only.

On the site which him
is consacr, Zune HD rvle a design lgant and sober in a format
allong which makes more think a smartphone qu `a walkman. It will be
available 5 colors with a choice of 10 engravings ralises by
artists. But these are the caractristic techniques which make a product of it
intressant. Zune HD possde a tactile notch OLED 16: 9th of 3,3
inches posting 480×272 pixels.

It can be transformed into reader High
Dfinition (720p) via a station D `reception (option) quipe D `an exit HDMI
who allows to connect it on a tlvisor HD. The vido treatment is assur
by a processor Tegra de Nvidia, a Ploughshare multiprocessor which liking
indpendamment the CPU, the streaming vido and the graphics processor.

Zune HD
embark a WiFi connection for surfer since hotspots with the navigator
intgr which is a version allge D `Internet Explorer. Ct storage, Zune
HD is available in two versions of 16 and 32 Go. What to contain
respectively 5 and 10 hours of vidos in HD or 22 and 48 hours of vidos in
standard dfinition.

an aggressive price

Microsoft seems to have well pens the things, jusqu `with
price: 220 dollars for Zune HD 16 Go and 289 for the version 32 Go.
Comparatively, the iPod 8 Go dimensions 229 dollars, 16 Go is sold 299 dollars
and 32 Go 399 dollars.

That will be it sufficient to make of the shade
Apple? To see. The only weak link of soldering iron remains the diffusion of
contents, thing in which Apple excels with iTunes. Microsoft N `does not have yet
russi crer this quation gaining between its walkman and its platform of
sale in line Zune Marketplace.

Reste knowledge finally if this modle will cross the Atlantic and the Pacific since its prdcesseurs N `never have T sold apart from the United States and of Canada. (Eureka Press)

Dmonstration of Zune HD by Brian Seitz (Microsoft)

DHL Email dmatrialise the work contract of its intrims

tude of case – the 40.000 contracts dintrimaires signs each Anne in France by the spcialist of the mail are dsormais lectronic. DHL indeed has dmatrialis this process, of the order jusqu the signature.

Subsidiary of Deutsche Post, DHL Total Email gathers in France 400 salaris out of six production sites. Its two principal mtiers are the dition of relevs accounts, and the routing of parcel. For its activit, strongly mark by the saisonnalit, it undertaken devotes each Anne 6 million D `euros its dpenses D `intrim; a budget which makes the first station of dpenses of it.

At DHL, the management of the intrim is dlocalise. Thus the shutter budgtaire is administr with the sige. The production sites grent them as locally the contacts with the agencies of temporary work. Jusqu `in 2008, the contractual relation with the agencies rested on contracts paper. In all, 40.000 contracts are known as each Anne.

« The project has T rentabilis in less D `one year »

« Because of the constraint lgale, sometimes difficult to respect, D `a signature of the contracts under 48 hours, and the need to lay out in time rel D `a tat for the places of the dpense in interim, DHL has wish dmatrialiser the processes of management of the contracts. France has T retained like site controls » explain Emmanuel Baudry, person in charge of the project at Total DHL Email.

It undertaken dbute then a phase D `exprimentation of the platform Web. In April 2008, three sites are D `access concerns. They will be six in October. relate initially to the administrative lments of the process, knowledge the order of the contracts D `intrim. The follow-up of the dpenses will be types it following.

« In-house, the chief of site puts D `agreement with the chief D `workshop on the number D `intrimaires. An assistant, aprs a call tlphonic arranges it temporary work, will seize the order on Pixid, while prcisant give them relating to the intrimaires and hard contracts. A certain number of fields are prrenseigns in the application, as the agencies rfrences » dtaille Emmanuel Baudry.

« The dmatrialisation made it possible to clarify the contractual relation »

It agency turns over Total DHL then Email a contract lectronic. Menus of contrle allow S `to ensure of the accuracy of the relative informations in particular the reason, the coefficient of invoicing and the time rate. The vrification carries out, the opration is valid. For tre records, the order still owes tre (grce a registered certificate provided by Pixid) by the chief of site.

the whole of information D `historical is archiv grce the lectronique one of, intgre the Pixid platform. As for the certificates lectronic, they are renouvels each Anne. But the complexit of the project related above all to the implication of the agencies D `intrim and the change of the relation. To implement the dmatrialisation, the agencies were indeed they to also adopt Pixid for the management of the contracts with DHL.

the change in the practices of work N `finally does not have reprsent a brake the result of the project. For DHL, the bnfices are well with Re Total …

Green IT: HP, Dell and Lenovo do not hold their promises

Environment – In its last classification, Greenpeace pingle these 3 manufacturers dordinateurs for their weak engagement in matire of protection of lenvironnement. Aprs the slogans marketing, length awaits the acts. The actors of the tlphonie do better.

Like each quarter, Greenpeace publishes its baromtre of the lectronic green one, in which been worth association engagements of the actors of data processing, the tlphonie and lectronic the large-public in matire environmental. And Greenpeace does not fail an S `to ensure that the companies respect their promises strictly.

the concern cologic became a vritable sales point. Also, manufacturers N `do not hsitent to use of this lever to regild their image. But sometimes some do not respect their engagements; C `is the case D `HP, Lenovo and Dell, in March by Greenpeace.

Bonnet D `for Nintendo, 1st price for Nokia

the three manufacturers of matriel data-processing thus plunge to the classification of this new assessment. They S `taient engags to remove the harmful lments their products, to know PVC and the fireproofing agents broms (BFR: brominated flame delaying). And in the matire, HP is D `aprs cologic association worst lve.

However, the reading of the slogan affich, the amricain wants to be exemplary. « Through its engagement screw–screw of the environment, HP aims rduire the environmental impact of its products, services and oprations so D `to ensure a maximum durabilit in its activits and those of its customers. This engagement remains a base of its policy, firmly anchors in its values » , can one read there.

Microsoft the 15th place

Greenpeace quotes one in matire D `environment, Apple, for dmontrer qu `it is possible for the manufacturers to withdraw the polluting components their products. Association underlines with irony the battles marketing of the manufacturers to praise the cologic qualits their products; generally effects of communication whose Greenpeace always awaits an implementation concrte.

However, the manufacturers D `computers are not the only dunces. On the 18 been worth companies, figure thus the 15th place and. As for the goods lves, it S `acts, by dcroissant order, of Nokia (1st), Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Greenpeace Classification at July 1, 2009
1st: Nokia
2nd: Samsung
3rd: Sony Ericsson
4th: LG Electronics
5th: Toshiba
6th: Motorola
7th: Philips
8th: Sharp
9th: Acer
10th: Panasonic
11th: Apple
12th: Sony
13th: Dell
14th: HP
15th: Microsoft
16th: Lenovo
17th: Fujitsu
18th: Nintendo

Netbooks: users surprised by their weak performances

Technology – confusion on the relles capacits of the netbooks strongly pserait on the level of satisfaction of the purchasers amricains, with 42% dinsatisfaits, according to a tude ralise by cabinet NPD.

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While choosing a netbook, number D `users thought of acqurir a computer with the performances quivalentes those D `a traditional portable, but with an obstruction rduit. They have T surprised, ngativement, according to one.

confusion around the capacits of the netbooks, these computers, generates the dissatisfaction of the users, D `aprs the enqute of NPD ralise auprs of 600 owners amricains of netbooks.

Indeed, 60% of these acqureurs thought with this modle D `computer of having Mrs. capacits qu `with a traditional portable PC (however coteux the purchase). Also, 42% of these users are dclarent dissatisfied of their purchase.

the 18-24 the least satisfied years of the performances

And mcontentement is even more prgnant on section 18-24 years, precisely sduite by the weak price of the netbook. 65% of the purchasers of this catgorie espraient of better performances. They are only 27% to judge the performances suprieures their waitings initial.

Among the acqureurs informs of the spcificits of the netbooks, the level of satisfaction is definitely more important. Indeed, they are 70% to say itself satisfied with the purchase of this type D `computers. The manufacturers of netbooks have thus a work D `information to carry out auprs users.

Their campaigns marketing praising the attraction of these computers in situation of mobilit are they avres effective. The mobilit permitted by the netbook is the premire motivation D `purchase for 60% of the acqureurs. But the rels needs for the users diffrent motivations D `purchase. Indeed, in 60% of the cases, netbook N `forever quitt their residence.

confusion thus persists among the purchasers D `. A enqute of NPD in 2008 had dj montr that many owners of netbook mconnaissaient the technical spcificits of these MiniPC. Frustration thus carried it on satisfaction among these users.