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Article | 8/12/2010 Salesforce.com rolls out free version of Chatter

Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced Chatter Free, a version of its social collaboration software that includes a Facebook-like "invite" feature that e...

Article | 8/12/2010 Salesforce.com unveils Database.com

Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service, Database.com, set to be announced Tuesday at the Dreamforce c...

Article | 7/12/2010 Salesforce.com at turning point as Dreamforce begins

Salesforce.com enters this year's Dreamforce conference riding a wave of rapid growth and increasing technological breadth, but much work remains ahea...

Article | 4/12/2010 BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation

BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical...

Article | 3/12/2010 HP moves to improve, protect its support business

Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will roll out an improved services support program as well as a policy change that could impede the growth ...

Article | 1/12/2010 Startup offers 'virtual private SaaS' for Salesforce.com

Startup Navajo Systems is targeting Salesforce.com customers who face regulatory hurdles involving data privacy and cloud computing with a new service...

Article | 30/11/2010 Oracle users have big private cloud plans

While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study fr...

Article | 30/11/2010 Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans

While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study fr...

Article | 29/11/2010 Salesforce.com names its first chief scientist

Salesforce.com has named JP Rangaswami, formerly chief scientist of BT Group, to a newly created position of the same name, the company said Wednesday...

Article | 25/11/2010 Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash

Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility co...

Article | 24/11/2010 What's on HP's software shopping list?

Software provided only about 3 percent of Hewlett-Packard's US$126 billion in net revenue during its fiscal 2010, but newly appointed CEO and software...

Article | 23/11/2010 Attachmate buying Novell for $2.2 billion

Novell announced Monday it has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for US$2.2 billion, ending months of speculation over its future. The deal is expec...

Article | 18/11/2010 Oracle sues hardware partner over warehouse burglary

An Oracle lawsuit filed last week could serve as a cautionary message to hardware partners that wish to do business with the vendor: Secure your build...

Article | 17/11/2010 Black Duck buys SpikeSource

Black Duck Software announced Tuesday it is acquiring the assets of application development toolmaker SpikeSource. Terms were not disclosed.

Article | 17/11/2010 Oracle support site switch looms for Sun customers

Oracle is weeks away from moving thousands of Sun Microsystems customers over to its My Oracle Support portal, a relatively new system that experience...