The big 'technology battle' of 2005

In 2005, there were many dramatic battles between giants in the IT field in the world. These battles represent fierce competition in the field considered the most fashionable today.

Microsoft in the new trend

The first is the "war" between Microsoft and some formidable competitors including Yahoo, Skype, Google . It can be said that this is an outstanding event of the year when giants afraid of Google ahead of its advances in online services, especially those sold directly online.

Mr. Bill Gates sees Google as a 'potential threat' to Microsoft. Earlier, Microsoft also filed a lawsuit against Google when it hired an employee, who previously worked for Microsoft, to plan its activities in China. Google's search engine is used by nearly half of the Internet population, their services are also available on many PCs, and may soon be Google and Google PC software.

The Google brand is becoming more familiar to Internet users than Windows or Microsoft. This battle represents a new trend of global information technology when users demand more friendly working tools in a collaborative environment. Microsoft's upcoming strategic product is Windows Vista.

Oracle and SAP

Also in the headlines, giant Oracle in the battle with SAP, the company that sells the world's largest business software. Oracle bought Siebel in a contract worth $ 5.8 billion. The 'annexation' of Siebel, a CRM (Customer Relationship Managerment) software company, has brought Oracle 4,000 more customers and 3.4 million CRM users, adding strength to Oracle in its competition with SAP.

Most recently, Oracle has a strategy to win more customers when lowering prices and supporting computers using dual-core processors, which are the trend of computers and servers next year .

AMD and Intel: the battle for microprocessor manufacturing technology

This war is still ongoing, extremely silent but also extremely noisy. An important turning point took place in June when AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel for a monopoly. This lawsuit took place in many countries and is continuing, most recently in Japan. AMD has argued that Intel has used "strong" measures to remove AMD from the arena illegally in order to retain its monopoly on prices, especially in the field of microprocessor manufacturing. . Intel denies AMD's allegations.

In technology, AMD's processors are now considered to be more dominant in speed and price. AMD is gradually gaining market share from Intel. A lot of computer companies that have turned their heads away from AMD are now enthusiastic to welcome them back, including HP, IBM . AMD's position in the market is getting stronger . Meanwhile, Intel looks forward to the Yonah microprocessor line in the new year and sees 2005 as an insignificant decline . In essence, this is a competition for processor manufacturing technology.

Other fronts

Causing a lot of attention, it's a match on "papers", between HP and SUN. HP said it attracted a lot of SUN customers to switch to HP servers in the Asia Pacific region. On the communications front, Finnish mobile giant Nokia has bought IntelliSync (developer of email and wireless messaging technology) for $ 340 million, aimed at compete with Research in Motion (RIM) in the field of mobile phones.

The battles are still ongoing. The balance of whichever side is tilted will greatly affect the society because they are giants who hold the means of movement of the current human society.