Global vendor strategies - 13/10/06

Siemens has signed a LOI to sell its assets in and intellectual property for its Optical Network Terminal (ONT) technology, supporting both BPON and GPON standards, to TXP, provider of pre-manufacturing services. TXP has also hired Siemens' former ONT development team effective immediately. Siemens also announced it will fold its software development businesses into its loss-making information-technology services SBS unit. The new unit will be called SIS (Siemens IT solutions and Services).

Busy trading on Nvidia shares in Wall Street nowadays; Intel is given as a potential buyer for the company.

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, consolidating all its ad businesses.

Oracle is buying French software house Sunopsis, specialized in data extraction, loading and transformation (ETL).

Cisco and Italtel have renewed their strategic alliance. They launched the Integrated Networked Business Voice Solution (IN-BVS), a unified communication solution for service providers.

IBM has launched a new business unit to focus on telecom solutions on the LATAM market.

UTStarcom said it is exploring “strategic alternatives”. What does it means? It could mean that UTStarcom is open to sell itself, merge with another company or realign its focus.