Driven by demand in the healthcare and education sectors, revenues in the wireless LAN market grew to more than $1 billion in the third quarter, according to DellOro Group. Demand for 802.11n products also played a factor in the revenue increase. Cisco, HP and Enterasys were the key beneficiaries of the growth, with quarterly revenues increasing more than 30 percent each.
– Revenue in the worldwide wireless LAN market jumped to more than $1 billion in the third quarter, with the healthcare and education sectors driving the growth, according to market research firm DellOro Group.
There also was growth in sales of 802.11n products, DellOro Group said Dec. 14.
The third…
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WLAN Revenues Jump in Q3, Dell`Oro Says
VMware Revenues Up but Profits Drop 54%
Hypervisor maker VMware reports fiscal third-quarter revenues of $490 million with a profit of $38 million, or 9 cents per share of common stock. This compares with a profit of $83 million or 21 cents per share on $472 million in sales in the same period a year ago, an abrupt 54 percent year-over-year drop in earnings.
– Enterprise virtualization market leader VMware, like just about everybody
else in IT, is still feeling the pinch of a slow-recovering world economy, but
it appears to be holding its own in the face of a nagging buying slowdown.
The hypervisor maker, majority owned by storage giant EMC,
reporte…
Oracle’s Profits Up, Revenues Down in Fiscal Q1
Net income was $1.12 billion, or 22 cents a share, compared with $1.08 billion, or 21 cents, a year earlier. Including revenue from acquired companies, sales dropped 6.6 percent to $5.06 billion, Oracle Executive Vice President and CFO Jeff Epstein said.
– Oracle, deep in the pre-integration process of acquiring Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion transaction,
reported Sept. 16 that its fiscal first-quarter profit improved 4.4
percent thanks to higher margins, negating a second consecutive quarter
of declining sales revenue.
The common stock price…
Apple, Google, Nokia Among Those Grabbing at Soaring Wireless Data Revenues
A new iSuppli report details the strategies carriers need to adopt to benefit from soaring wireless data revenues. With Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft and RIM among those muscling in on the action, the balance of power in the mobile data chain is sure to shift, says iSuppli.
– A new report from researcher iSuppli suggests that the now-prickly relationship between Apple and Google
is directly related to the continued rise of wireless data revenues and
the desires of all major parties to grab as large a portion of this as
possible.
iSuppli estimates that global reve…



