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Article | 3/12/2010 HP moves to improve, protect its support business
Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will roll out an improved services support program as well as a policy change that could impede the growth ...
Article | 25/11/2010 Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash
Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility co...
Article | 10/11/2010 Oregon SAP project wracked by leadership woes
An SAP implementation conducted by the city government of Portland, Oregon, went badly awry due to planning and project leadership problems, resulting...
Article | 5/11/2010 Oracle user group warns of support deadline
The Oracle Applications Users Group is urging members running an older version of E-Business Suite to ensure they have all the necessary patches neede...
Article | 16/10/2010 Forrester downgrades US IT spending forecast
Forrester Research is now predicting U.S. IT spending to grow 8.1 percent this year, a slight drop from the analyst firm's July prediction of a 9.9 pe...
Article | 28/09/2010 How to get tough with your tech vendors
Planning a purchase from a major IT vendor? In this still-tough economy, negotiating pros recommend being aggressive and creative, as well as analyzin...
Article | 22/09/2010 Oracle gets cloud religion
What a difference a year makes. Last September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison launched into a tirade about the "nonsense" that cloud computing had become. ...
Article | 21/09/2010 Oracle nemesis Rimini Street fires another salvo
Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against Rimini Street has not deterred the latter company from announcing another addition to its lineup of lower-cost suppor...
Article | 21/09/2010 Avaya CEO: How video will change business world
Last Wednesday, Avaya, Inc. made a splash in New York City with a portfolio of new collaboration products, including the Flare Experience multimedia c...
Article | 21/09/2010 Hurd unveils Oracle's latest mega-machine
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data proc...
Article | 21/09/2010 Hurd unveils Oracle's latest mega-machine
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data proc...
Article | 20/09/2010 Ellison announces 'one big, honkin' cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company's entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the competitive stakes between...
Article | 18/08/2010 Fusion Apps questions Oracle should answer
Oracle appears set to deliver more information than ever before about its long-awaited Fusion Applications at the OpenWorld conference in September, w...
Article | 12/08/2010 Forrester: Open-source BI has pros and cons
A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open-source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities e...
Article | 27/07/2010 IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing
Interest in the SaaS (software as a service) delivery model is growing to the point that by 2012, almost 85 per cent of new vendors will be focused on...