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China is the one place where Google doesn't necessarily dominate in terms of search and mobile. But with Android espousing an open platform, companies like Dell and Baidu have developed their own derivative operating system meant for the Chinese market. Will the country's 1 billion users be a reason for other platform owners to worry?

If anything is certain about the news that Hewlett-Packard (news, site) is to stop making WebOS devices, and will probably spin off its PC business, it’s that Michael Dell is a funny man. On news of the decision by HP, which followed its announcement that it intends to buy Autonomy, he went into Tweet mode.

This week, IBM was at the enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, where it launched IBM Connections, a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities, Verizon opens a new risk management service, Clearwell extends reach of e-Discovery and Cintas achieves NAID certification.

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This week, we get a look at how SMBs are using social media in new research from the SMB Group, Intermedia introduces backup services for companies that are looking at moving to the cloud, VMware is handed Moxy services by EMC, while both Dell and Acer have launched new servers to help SMBs deal with the growth in the amount of data that even small companies are getting.

While Microsoft (news, site) tries to get industry converted to the most recent Windows and Office releases, it is steadily beavering away on their revolutionary sucessors. But will there be much a market for them to play in?

If Dell is riding high on some impressive figures for fiscal 2010 announced this week, it’s just about certain that it’s tinged with a little bit of unease with the announcement also this week that HP (news, site) is about to close a deal on the acquisition of Vertica.

This week in the SMB market, there are strong indications that the market is beginning to show concrete signs of a positive swing, with fiscal figures from Dell that show SMB spending in the space is growing. CRM and social CRM releases from NextCorp and Constant Contact, as well as new upgrades for SMBs from Symantec, show where their priorities lie.

Early January and the GRC space is already moving. Dell has just expanded its IT portfolio by buying security provider Secureworks, OpenLogic offers agile development governance, LiveOffice looks at cloud security for email and there are software upgrades from Unisys and Bridgeway.

This week, Dell shows that it is serious about developing its SaaS offerings with new email security software. CommVault extends its Simpana software, while BMC has automated its GRC processes on its BSM platform.

Cloud player Boomi has been bringing the big guns into the SaaS integration market, turning itself into a natural target for a larger player like Dell. 

Dell began as a flexible and customer-centric organization. But as it grew it suffered big organization disease and focused on itself more than the customer.

Underlining its growing interest in security products and solutions, IBM (news, site) has just announced that it is to buy Open Pages, a MA-based company that develops risk and compliance software for business.

When the deal is closed, IBM intends to add the company to its business analytics portfolio rather than to the Tvioli part of its business that benefitted from the BixFix security acquisition last July, an indication that Open Pages will be sold as part of its data analytics packages on which IBM has spent a whole pile of money over the last ten years.

After two weeks of bids and counter bids, Dell (news, site) finally announced last night that it was pulling out of the race to acquire data storage provider 3Par. As a result, it is now likely that HP (news, site) will acquire the Fremont, CA, company for the US$ 2.35 billion final offer that has been accepted by the boards of HP and 3Par.

The battle to secure storage software provider 3Par (news, site) has a way to run yet. There are now rumors circulating that Dell (news, site) is getting ready to come back with a sweetner to the US$ 1.6 billion that HP offered for the same company yesterday,.