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Article | 12/12/2012 Oracle rolls out new database security package

Oracle is simplifying its security offerings by combining a pair of existing tools into a single package.

Article | 11/12/2012 Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software

Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance, which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata ...

Article | 11/12/2012 The year in enterprise software: Seven key takeaways

It's been a busy and transformative year for enterprise software. We dug through our story archives, talked to industry experts and put on our thinkin...

Article | 10/12/2012 The scariest US software project horror stories of 2012

Sure, plenty of enterprise software projects go just fine and end up giving customers all the things vendors promise: lower operating costs, streamlin...

Article | 7/12/2012 SAP adds MaxAttention support option for custom apps

SAP is now offering its MaxAttention support service to companies with software that was designed and built by SAP's custom development organization, ...

Article | 6/12/2012 Xerox, PeopleSoft service provider in software project dustup

Xerox is being sued by systems integrator CedarCrestone over payments related to an Oracle PeopleSoft upgrade at insurer CIGNA.

Article | 5/12/2012 SAP retools research strategy around internal startups

SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than US$13 bill...

Article | 4/12/2012 Infor acquires Orbis Global to boost its marketing software clout

Infor has scooped up marketing resource management vendor Orbis Global in a bid to flesh out the capabilities of its Epiphany marketing suite. Terms o...

Article | 4/12/2012 HP's Whitman affirms commitment to Autonomy, stresses that HP remains 'quite profitable'

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has once again affirmed the company's commitment to its embattled Autonomy software division, stressing that HP's fisc...

Article | 3/12/2012 Autonomy founder Lynch unveils website, continuing public war with HP

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch has created a new website where he will apparently keep a running stockpile of his responses to Hewlett-Packard's allegati...

Article | 3/12/2012 ERP: Oracle vs. SAP vs. The Upstarts

As 2012 comes to a close, the ERP software market's biggest players, Oracle and SAP, are seeing their long rivalry become a stalemate, while they face...

Article | 29/11/2012 Cisco to buy network planning vendor Cariden

Cisco is planning to acquire network planning tools vendor Cariden Technologies for US$141 million, in its third announced acquisition this month.

Article | 28/11/2012 Analyst, SAP dispute over reported support discounts reveals murky picture

SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, which said that a handful of customers had received substantial di...

Article | 28/11/2012 Gartner: SaaS now replacing legacy apps, as well as extending them

Companies are not only buying into SaaS (software as a service) more than ever, they are also ripping out legacy on-premises applications and replacin...

Article | 27/11/2012 Autonomy's Lynch declares innocence in open letter to HP board, HP fires back

The feud between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett-Packard's leadership over alleged accounting fraud at the software vendor has intensified, wi...