Tech Index November 13 2009

The Battle Road Tech Index™ rose 4.0 percent for the week ended November 13, 2009, closing at 1624. For the week, only Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO, $23.71) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO, $15.93) fell in value out of the 25 Index components. Year-to-date, the index is up 62 percent, having started at a value of 1000. The [...]

MySQL: The Common Denominator of Oracle and Sun Microsystems

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced in a surprise move this morning that it would acquire Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $7.4 billion. With the move, Oracle now competes with nearly all of the largest technology companies, including Microsoft in middleware and server operating systems, SAP and Salesforce.com in business applications, IBM, Cisco, HP, and Dell in [...]