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Article | 10/03/2010 Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastruct...

Article | 3/03/2010 Oracle hikes certification testing fees

Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.

Article | 6/03/2010 Apple iPad goes on sale April 3

The wifi model of Apple's highly anticipated iPad multimedia device will be released in the U.S. on April 3, with 3G-enabled devices available later i...

Article | 5/03/2010 RightNow tries to change SaaS contract, pricing game

CRM vendor RightNow announced a new SaaS (software as a service) pricing and licensing model on Thursday that it says provides customers with fairer, ...

Article | 24/02/2010 Amazon EC2 boosts memory, Windows support

Amazon Web Services has added a new "high memory extra-large" instance option for its AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides scalabl...

Article | 23/02/2010 Iron Mountain buys archiving vendor Mimosa

Information management giant Iron Mountain said Monday it has acquired content archiving vendor Mimosa Systems for US$112 million.

Article | 23/02/2010 DataFlux goes up against MDM giants with new platform

SAS Institute subsidiary DataFlux is unveiling a new suite on Monday that combines MDM (master data management), data quality and data integration too...

Article | 18/02/2010 Salesforce.com launches private beta for Chatter

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a private beta program for Chatter, the enterprise collaboration platform first announced last year, positioning...

Article | 18/02/2010 Oracle making new push into social services software

Oracle has its heart set on dominating the social services software market, in which its rival SAP has historically had a strong hand.

Article | 6/02/2010 Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search

Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this...

Article | 3/02/2010 Oracle unplugs Sun's virtual world

Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems' Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, according to a Jan. 30 p...

Article | 27/01/2010 Talend reveals open-source MDM

An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from th...

Article | 25/01/2010 Infor looks to raise profile, develops open SOA

Although Infor is one of the largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors in the world after SAP and Oracle, you might never know it from scanni...

Article | 21/01/2010 IBM buying National Interest Security Company

Hoping to get a bigger piece of the U.S. defense budget, IBM announced Wednesday that it is buying security and analytics consultancy National Interes...

Article | 14/01/2010 What's on Salesforce.com's shopping list?

Salesforce.com's move this week to raise US$500 million through a debt offering has observers speculating the on-demand CRM (customer relationship man...