Traditionally, economic theory has regarded the economy as a whole as a vast, single value chain with raw materials and labour serving as input at one end, and consumer goods emerging as output at the other end.
By creating hardware and software that can diagnose and solve network problems, businesses can lower operational and IT labour costs. The software is now available in IBM's Tivoli systems monitoring product and IBM will be adding it to other software.
The modular approach lets it use, say, existing systems management software from its Tivoli line within its WebSphere application server and cut out redundancy in the overall software portfolio. This specialist could come from any of IBM's software...
The transaction is designed to enhance Big Blue's Tivoli software portfolio with Micromuse's network management offerings. San Francisco-based Micromuse will become a business unit within the Tivoli software division.
For its part, Oracle said the acquisition brings together two companies "with complementary assets" which can "accelerate innovation across the combined companies' customer bases". Miles explained that as a significant number of people use Oracle...
According to the GSMA, operators' costs vary across the EU by a factor of four - owing to differences in things like labour costs, licence fees and population density - so "a single rate just wouldn't be appropriate".