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Comment Re:Why, that's a nice gift horse (Score 1) 73

by Gery on Saturday May 09, 2009 @11:38AM (#27888631) Attached to: Macs With 3G — More Connectivity, More Problems

Here in europe its quite common to subsidize prices of mobile phones and laptops with 3G. So you get 300 - 400 EUR off the price if you bundle it with a 3G contract. And 3G costs around EUR 9 here in Austria (per month). So its quite a good deal...

Submission + - Apple to Buy EA? 1

Submitted by yerktoader on Saturday May 09, 2009 @05:07AM

yerktoader writes: There are rumors abound that Apple might buy EA, but some interesting counterpoints abound. Film at eleven(via Yahoo):

File this one firmly under "unconfirmed," but it's nevertheless a tantalizing rumor.

According to Fast Money's Guy Adami, via TheStreet.com, Apple is "eyeing Electronic Arts as a takeover target." EA's currently the second-largest games publisher in the world and owner of the smash hit NFL-licensed series of football games. Could we be facing the possibility of a Mac-only iMadden?

Well, probably not. Apple has indeed been bolstering its games know-how, hiring a major Xbox strategist away from Microsoft in recent weeks. And EA is no stranger to Apple platforms: in the last year it's brought several of its major franchises to the iPhone, including Sim City, Tiger Woods, and Spore, with considerable success. But it's a far cry from there to a takeover, and that's putting it mildly.

Specialist video games analyst Michael Pachter seems to agree. Speaking to Gamasutra, he pointed out that if Apple was looking to make some entertainment acquisitions, it could buy Warner Music — which controls 20% of the music industry — for roughly half of EA's estimated price. However, the doubt didn't stop EA's stock from bucking the market trend to climb 1.63% at closing.

Comment Use SAP HR (Score 1) 79

by Gery on Sunday July 15, 2007 @04:58PM (#19870423) Attached to: Linux HR Management Systems?

We use SAP HR in our company and are about to migrate to Linux (Server). If you just need something that "runs on Linux", I would suggest you use a standard application like SAP (which is quite ok for the size of your company). If you look for something open-source, you have to keep looking.

Although, SAP's source-code is "open" as far as you can download, read and modify the source (ABAP?). You would have to pay for your users (onetime fee and maintanance fee) depending on how much data the user sees...

Yours, Gery

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