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Article | 21/07/2010 Birst offers concurrent user pricing for BI

On-demand BI vendor Birst announced Tuesday that it is now offering the option of concurrent user pricing, a licensing model few BI providers use beca...

Article | 20/07/2010 IBM net income jumps 9 percent

IBM's second-quarter profits were up 9 percent from a year earlier, the company announced on Monday, with increased sales in the U.S. and Asia helping...

Article | 20/07/2010 RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in

Rackspace's contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players ...

Article | 15/07/2010 Study: Most MySQL users not too worried about Oracle

The MySQL community is mostly neutral or positive about the open-source database's prospects under Oracle's stewardship, according to a newly released...

Article | 13/07/2010 Infor to embrace Microsoft's Azure cloud

Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and...

Article | 13/07/2010 Oracle to issue 59 critical patches

Oracle on Tuesday will release 59 patches to fix security weaknesses affecting hundreds of products, according to <a href="http://www.oracle.com/techn...

Article | 13/07/2010 Microsoft opening CRM app store

Microsoft plans to take a cue from rival CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com with the upcoming release of CRM 2011, by adding...

Article | 9/07/2010 EMC-Greenplum deal could precede more consolidation

EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well ...

Article | 8/07/2010 Oracle's Exadata delivering on hype for LinkShare

Oracle's claims about its Exadata database machine's performance capabilities are merited, but in order to get the benefits, customers have to do more...

Article | 8/07/2010 JackBe rolls out 'enterprise app store'

JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various system...

Article | 7/07/2010 Microstrategy rolls out BI app for iPhone, iPad

Microstrategy on Tuesday is announcing a next-generation mobile BI (business intelligence) application for Apple's iPhone and iPad, joining the growin...

Article | 7/07/2010 Can Oracle pull off Sun portals merger without a hitch?

Oracle is preparing to launch a major migration of portals that serve customers and technologies gained through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Article | 5/07/2010 SAP extends Sybase offer, awaits EU approval

SAP said Friday that it has extended its US$5.8 billion bid for Sybase while it awaits approval under European merger regulations.

Article | 5/07/2010 SkySQL joins ranks of MySQL support providers

MySQL users now have another choice for support besides Oracle, which acquired the open-source database through its purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Article | 2/07/2010 IBM acquires BigFix for data centers

IBM announced Thursday that it plans to buy systems management software vendor BigFix. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the third quar...