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December 21, 2005 | Comments: (0)
Acxiom drawing headlines in hostile takeover scenario
A regional newspaper in Arkansas cited Grid computing as a "key to future growth" for Little Rock-based Acxiom, a data processing powerhouse that's been a recent target for a $2-billion hostile takeover by ValueAct Capital partners.
Acxiom has a massive, in-house Linux Grid that they use to process more than 50 billion customer AbiliTec (their popular transactional processing application) transactions per month. Acxiom calls its Grid "Hive for Hire," and even built a home-grown management tool called "Apiary" (an apiary is a place where bees are kept, for all you non-Apiologists out there). You can read more about Acxiom's efforts in an Ian Foster op-ed on Computerworld that ran earlier this year.
Posted by Greg Nawrocki on December 21, 2005 07:57 AM
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