But EarthLink itself is looking to build upon the 32, 000 mobile subscribers and software assets it picked up from the Omnisky purchase.
CommVault regularly crops up in the Wall Street rumor mill as a potential target for the likes of Dell, HP or IBM, or some other IT giant looking to add to storage software assets.
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"Microsoft has amazing assets including software capability and a global name but it has yet to show me it can create a rival product to Yahoo, " he said.
All along, it has been obvious that Dell needed stronger assets in software as it continues on its quest to avoid the Gorge of Eternal Peril that is spanned by the Bridge of Death.
The company's most enduring assets were its software engineers.
That is because the average rate of depreciation of the capital stock has risen as investment has shifted from traditional machinery to shorter-lived assets such as computers and software.
As the composition of investment has shifted from traditional machinery towards shorter-lived assets, such as computers and software, the average rate of depreciation has increased.
Net assets totaled 16 million yuan and his software was being used by more than 3, 000 customers nationwide.
Without software, the world's supply of hard assets and brains can't combine fast enough to produce wealth that outpaces population growth.
All three companies will contribute assets to the new venture, including patents, software, people, cash and capital equipment.
The big news story of the day was Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) reporting that it had to write down a majority of intangible assets resulting from the purchase of Autonomy, a software provider.
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He's deployed both assets to rejigger Novell from fallen PC networker to ascendant Net software star.
Password management software comes in many flavors, including password applications for IT teams to secure privileged assets such as critical servers, databases, routers, switches and applications.
The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.
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