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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...

Article | 2/12/2009 Gartner buying AMR Research in $64 million deal

Gartner announced Monday that it is buying AMR Research for US$64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm. The deal is expect...

Article | 2/12/2009 SAP readying potential Google Wave rival

SAP is planning to release a "virtual war room" decision-making tool dubbed Constellation, which could be a potential rival to Google's heralded Wave ...

Article | 26/11/2009 Crunching data on the cheap

Data-warehousing software systems are expensive, but many enterprises have nonetheless been willing to dig deep, betting that analytics will provide n...

Article | 20/11/2009 Benioff trumpets Force.com platform's success

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not ...

Article | 19/11/2009 Salesforce.com announces 'Chatter' social-networking app

Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking applicat...

Article | 17/11/2009 HP unveils new scale-out servers

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a pair of servers aimed at companies that want to build large-scale computing clusters while maximizing data cente...

Article | 16/11/2009 Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific

Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.

Article | 11/11/2009 Users: New Oracle support portal a 'fiasco'

A number of Oracle users are infuriated by reported access and performance issues with the vendor's new My Oracle Support portal, which superseded the...

Article | 4/11/2009 Microsoft pushes switchover deal for CRM Online

Microsoft is trying to steal away Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand customers with a new offer that will provide them with six months' access to...