Global vendor strategies - 20/05/07

Oracle is still expanding with the acquisition of Agile Software, an expert in PLC (product life cycle) for about $500m. It just bought Hyperion for $3.3bn.

Motorola consolidates its position in video services with the acquisition of Modulus Video, a MPEG-4 encoding player. Modulus Video will become part of Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility (formerly Connected Home Solutions) division.

ALU lost a computer disk containing the personal information of thousands of Lucent employees and retirees.

Fujitsu should be reevaluating its place in the Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) business. It sussessively lost the ATT and Qwest RFP.