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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...

Article | 12/01/2010 Progress scoops up BPM vendor Savvion

Middleware vendor Progress Software announced Monday it has purchased BPM (business process management) vendor Savvion for approximately US$49 million...

Article | 12/01/2010 Microsoft showcases new ERP app for retailers

Continuing its quest for more ERP (enterprise resource planning) market share, Microsoft on Monday announced a new application aimed at mid-sized spec...

Article | 9/01/2010 Oracle critical patch update includes 24 fixes

Oracle on Tuesday will release a patch update that includes 24 security fixes for its database, application server and other products.

Article | 6/01/2010 Oracle buys data quality vendor

Acquisition-happy Oracle has made its first purchase of the year, announcing late Monday that it has scooped up Westminster, Colorado, data-quality ve...

Article | 5/01/2010 EMC acquires GRC vendor Archer Technologies

EMC said Monday that it plans to acquire GRC (governance, risk and compliance) vendor Archer Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is e...

Article | 5/01/2010 'Save MySQL' campaign gains momentum

A petition launched in December by MySQL creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius to "save" the open-source database from Oracle has quickly gained momentum, ...

Article | 19/12/2009 Oracle shed nearly 1,300 jobs in Q2

Oracle's workforce fell by 1,273 during the second quarter of its 2010 fiscal year, according to an earnings report released Thursday.

Article | 16/12/2009 HyperOffice up against Google Apps, Zoho with updated suite

Google Apps, Zoho and other online collaboration players got a fresh dose of competition Tuesday, as HyperOffice announced that a major overhaul of it...

Article | 15/12/2009 ERP vendor offers to take over MySQL

French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid Monday to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun M...

Article | 15/12/2009 MySQL creator launches campaign to 'save' database

The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purcha...

Article | 14/12/2009 Recession not all bad for enterprise software users

The global recession took a major toll on enterprise software vendors and their customers in 2009, leading to flagging license sales and tight IT budg...

Article | 10/12/2009 SAP planning to open up on-demand development platform

SAP is hoping to build a platform of third-party SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications to complement its own emerging wave of offerings.

Article | 8/12/2009 Tibco's 'Tibbr' aims to be enterprise Twitter

Middleware vendor Tibco said Monday it is preparing to release Tibbr, a messaging system with strong echoes of the popular Twitter microblogging servi...

Article | 5/12/2009 Study: MySQL use to drop under Oracle ownership

Usage of the open-source MySQL database is set to decline if Oracle succeeds in buying the software's owner, Sun Microsystems, according to new data r...