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Article | 9/11/2010 Oracle fails in bid to dismiss DOJ fraud suit

Oracle has managed to get some but not all aspects of the U.S. government's fraud case against it dismissed, according to documents filed last week in...

Article | 6/11/2010 ERP woes blamed for lumber company's bad quarter

Lumber Liquidators is attributing a weak third quarter to a complex SAP implementation, saying the project imposed a significant drain on worker produ...

Article | 5/11/2010 Oracle user group warns of support deadline

The Oracle Applications Users Group is urging members running an older version of E-Business Suite to ensure they have all the necessary patches neede...

Article | 4/11/2010 Oracle raises cost of low-end MySQL support

Oracle has apparently raised the price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly.

Article | 4/11/2010 Open-source BI project gains momentum

The open-source BI (business intelligence) project BIRT has surpassed 10 million downloads and 1 million developers, project sponsor Actuate announced...

Article | 3/11/2010 Former SAP exec Shai Agassi anticipated Oracle lawsuit

Former SAP executive Shai Agassi knew that Oracle might end up suing SAP over activities conducted by TomorrowNow, a now-defunct subsidiary of the Ger...

Article | 3/11/2010 SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees

SAP would pay Oracle $US120 million for "past and future reasonable attorneys fees and costs" under the terms of a joint stipulation filed Monday in c...

Article | 3/11/2010 Oracle buys Art Technology Group for $1 billion

Oracle announced Tuesday that it plans to buy e-commerce vendor Art Technology Group for about $US1 billion. The deal is expected to be completed earl...

Article | 2/11/2010 Microsoft, SAP sued by inventor over coding method

Microsoft, SAP and Bamboo Solutions are being sued by a Virginia company that claims some of the companies' software products infringe on its patented...

Article | 30/10/2010 Oracle-SAP suit won't clear third-party support fog

No matter the outcome of Oracle and SAP's sprawling intellectual-property dispute that goes to trial Monday, it will likely fail to clear up questions...

Article | 29/10/2010 Oracle takes stake in Infiniband vendor Mellanox

Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 per cent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and st...

Article | 26/10/2010 IBM revs up BI strategy with Cognos 10

IBM is rolling out a major new update to its Cognos BI (business intelligence) platform that includes new features for collaboration, statistical anal...

Article | 22/10/2010 IBM buys Clarity Systems for financial software

IBM said Thursday it has purchased financial governance software maker Clarity Systems. Terms were not disclosed.

Article | 22/10/2010 Amazon offering EC2 access at no charge

Amazon Web Services is rolling out an offer on Nov. 1 for new customers that provides one year of access to a "micro instance" on its Elastic Compute ...

Article | 21/10/2010 OpenStack cloud project remains on track

OpenStack, the open-source cloud management software project formed by hosting provider Rackspace, has met an initial development milestone, backers a...