The merger of equals would combine Hadoop software developers with complementary strengths in data storage, advanced analytics, and data management.
The new revenue recognition rules demand tight teamwork between pricing and revenue teams.
The enterprise software firm would have a market cap between $2.2 billion and $2.4 billion — compared to the $4.1 billion valuation it received in 2014.
A flock of startups is making cloud computing faster and more flexible, but most of them will not survive.
Six technology IPOs priced last week, with mixed results.
Some corporations are already jettisoning legacy databases and restrictive hardware setups and moving to the open-source framework for data analytics.
