According to foreign media reports, Emerson Electric (EMR) 23 said today that the company acquired in February followed by 3 months of the new orders, there have been since October 2008 for the first time since the increase in stock price followed by Emerson rose 0.9%, to 49.29 U.S. dollars per share.
The St. Louis-based company said in February its trailing three-month rate of increase in orders by 5% to 10%. glue stick The company also said its five business units in the four departments of orders are there growth, these sectors are: industrial automation sector, the network energy sector, climate technologies,glue gun and appliance and tools sector departments. The process of management of trailing three month rate of decline in orders by 5% to 10%.
Microsoft, Cisco grab communications market, said over one billion users within 3 years.
Beijing on March 25, according to foreign media reports, is competition for business phone customers with Cisco, Microsoft currently expects the next three years will be more than 1 billion Internet users use a combination of calls, text messages and video software.
Vice president of Microsoft's unified communications group - Pal (Gurdeep Singh Pall) Wednesday said it will launch this year a new version of Internet telephony and enterprise instant messaging products. Singh - Parr said, there are over 100 million users of Microsoft Office software, Office Communications Server (hereinafter referred to as "OCS") for net calls. In the year ended 30 June of the year, the software sales growth of more than 50%. Microsoft is expected within the next three years, there will be more than 1 billion telephone users this financial networks, instant messaging and video services in one product.
Microsoft's product is working with Cisco, Avaya's products compete for market. Market research firm Forrester Research predicts the market for unified communications in 2015 will reach 14.5 billion increase over 5 times. Market research firm IDC analyst Jonathan Edwards (Jonathan Edwards) that Microsoft OCS with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook e-mail software bundle, so Microsoft has a potential to attract users to the advantages. Edwards said, "OCS is ideal for Exchange and Outlook, as compared with competitor's products, OCS easier to manage. There is no doubt that the product will shake up the market."
Edwards said that Microsoft felt not only consider the part of the market. In last year's acquisition of Nortel Networks after a department, Avaya has exceeded Cisco's largest business phone equipment manufacturers. The two companies account for nearly half the market share.
Alliances rather than mergers and acquisitions.
Singh - Pal said that Microsoft will work with the telephone and video conferencing manufacturers association, and not the same as Cisco acquired in the field to start. Cisco recently acquired at the end of video conferencing equipment manufacturers TANDBERG. Manmohan Singh - Parr said, "no company can cover all aspects, you must clearly know their strengths and weaknesses. We believe that he did not acquire the necessary TANDBERG or WebEx, because we want to be a one-stop service provider." Xin Georgia - Pal that Cisco acquired a company, then re-packaged and then sold the practice of technology, want products to work together for typical users, too complex. Up to now, have yet to utter a spokesman for Cisco.
Microsoft also is also cooperating with Cisco to ensure that their phones can collaborate to run. Singh - Parr said, Cisco and Skype is making sure that users can connect by phone software Microsoft Office. Singh - Parr also said that Microsoft's current corporate clients include mobile operators have been Sprint Nextel, General Electric and other companies. In addition, Microsoft has not Skype as a competitor. Because as an Internet phone service, Skype is more likely to become a free overseas phone service provider, rather than a business tool.
Microsoft shares Wednesday fell 23 cents in Nasdaq Stock Market to close at 29.65 U.S. dollars. Cisco shares also fell 19 cents to close at 26.45 U.S. dollars.