Business

KPN bids to buy Getronics

Leon Meijer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:38:25 GMT

The dutch telecom company KPN has made a €6.25 a share cash offer to take over the IT services group Getronics. Thats 766 million euros ($1.1 billion).

And today KPN announched that they already bought 10 percent of the shares.

Actually, the colors green (KPN), blue (Getronics) and pink (PinkRoccade) look beautiful together! :-)

Facts about the Microsoft revenue

Leon Meijer — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:53:09 GMT

Microsoft made a nice $4.93 billion on revenue of $14.4 billion in one quarter. That is a profit of 34.24%. Lots of companies are jealous.

It takes Microsoft only about...

10 hours or so (yes, hours!) to exceed Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT - News) quarterly net income of $20.5 million.

four days to exceed Research In Motion's (NasdaqGS: RIMM) quarterly net income of $187.9 million.

four days to exceed Starbucks' (NasdaqGS: SBUX) quarterly net income of $205 million.

one week to exceed Nike's (NYSE: NKE - News) quarterly net income of $350.8 million.

two weeks to exceed McDonalds' (NYSE: MCD - News) quarterly net income of $762 million.

two weeks to exceed Apple's (NasdaqGS: AAPL) quarterly net income of $770 million.

18 days to exceed Google's (NasdaqGS: GOOG) quarterly net income of $1 billion.

23 days to exceed Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO - News) quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.

five weeks to exceed IBM's (NYSE: IBM - News) quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.

10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT - News) quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.

(source)

Flying to Bangalore... delayed... medical problems

Leon Meijer — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:46:19 GMT

I am currently in an Air France Airbus A340 airplane. Everything went fine this morning, my colleagues picked me up from home, we travelled to the Schiphol Airport, checked in and took the airplane from Amsterdam to Paris . I'm really excited to go!

The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris has very strict security checks. We had to wait for a long time in the queue. The security offers checked my handbagage for almost everything lol.... my laptop was even tested for nuclear stuff. When everything was ok we got into the airplane, where I still am lol. The plane was already moving until somebody from the cabin crew got a medical problem. I don't know whats happening now... we'll have to see. Unfortunatly.

I hope that I can write my next article from my hotel (www.presidenthotel.in) in Bangalore, India.

Check the photos here (i upload some pics already!): http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonmeijer/sets/72157600104405126/

Microsoft Biztalk 2006 course

Leon Meijer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:47:41 GMT

Today I started with a 5-day 'QuickStart' course about Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006. The course is delivered at the Microsoft training facility in Barneveld (see map).

It was a very interesting day. After a funny introduction round (the American trainer was unable to pronounce the dutch names ) he gave an overview of the Biztalk product. He talked about the receive and send port, adapters, pipelines, orchestrations, schema's and the mapper.

Tomorrow a next day, its bed time for me now because the course starts at 8.30am. Some photo expressions:

Going to the CeBIT tomorrow!

Leon Meijer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:12:25 GMT

Tomorrow (Saturday) I will go to the CeBIT, together with Marvin. The CeBIT is one of the largest technology fairs in the world and is being held in Hannover, Germany from 18th - 24th March.

In Hannover, we'll meet Mathieu, Jorrit, Maarten, Thijs and Hilco, colleagues of mine. I will visit the booths of Wibu, MindTree, Adapt and Logitech for sure and hope to see many many more! The last 2 years, I visited the CeBIT with Lennert and stayed 2 days which was already too short. This year I will go 1 day, because I need to be back on Sunday for Dave's birthday.

I will write about my impressions and new cool products!

New weblog in use!

Leon Meijer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:37:05 GMT

Hi to all!

I had some problems with my old blogger weblog. Finally I found some time to migrate to a new weblog system. I'm now using the SubText system, it looks pretty cool!

The plan is to blog more often than I did before. We'll see about that!