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Article | 26/06/2010 Salesforce.com sues Microsoft for patent infringement

Salesforce.com has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, making a move in response to an intellectual property suit Redmond filed against the on-dem...

Article | 24/06/2010 Infor buddies up with Microsoft

Infor will be relying on Microsoft technology for the next generation of its line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) products, in the wake of a dea...

Article | 23/06/2010 SAS preps in-memory analytic grids

SAS Institute is joining the newly hot area of in-memory processing, developing a series of high-performance analytics systems tuned for specialized t...

Article | 23/06/2010 A 'fat-free' programming framework for the cloud

Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications runni...

Article | 19/06/2010 Oracle taps top attorney Boies for SAP suit

Oracle has brought in the big guns to assist in its intellectual-property lawsuit against rival applications vendor SAP, hiring attorney David Boies, ...

Article | 17/06/2010 Oracle sued by US for alleged overcharging

Oracle is being sued by the U.S. government for allegedly overcharging it by millions of dollars, according to documents on file in U.S. District Cour...

Article | 15/06/2010 Oracle ERP users urged to upgrade

Oracle is hoping to make a big splash with its upcoming Fusion Applications launch, but in the meantime has the perennial and less glitzy task of pers...

Article | 11/06/2010 Is Software AG a good fit for SAP?

Some tech industry rumors have an extra-long life, and the one about SAP buying middleware vendor Software AG got an extension this week following pub...

Article | 9/06/2010 Oracle, SAP working on Exadata support

Frequent rivals Oracle and SAP are behaving more like "frenemies" when it comes to Oracle's Exadata database machine, high-profile mudslinging notwith...

Article | 3/06/2010 NetSuite takes a crack at discrete manufacturing

NetSuite is stepping up its vertical strategy with an on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) edition aimed at discrete manufacturers, the term f...

Article | 4/06/2010 Major Oracle BI launch coming next month

Oracle is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, acc...

Article | 3/06/2010 SAP Ventures sinks cash into instant-on platform vendor

SAP's venture capital arm is leading a US$10 million investment round for DeviceVM, maker of Splashtop, an "'instant-on" platform aimed at mobile user...

Article | 26/05/2010 VoltDB OLTP database exits beta

VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday.

Article | 26/05/2010 Oracle buys IP assets of marketing automation vendor

Oracle has acquired the intellectual property assets of Market2Lead, maker of marketing automation and demand-generation software, for an undisclosed ...

Article | 25/05/2010 IBM buys Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4B

IBM is buying AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce, maker of business-to-business data integration software, for about US $1.4 billion in cash, the compa...