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Article | 14/10/2010 Twitter solves its data formatting challenge
Eschewing popular choices such as XML, CSV and JSON, Twitter has opted to format the back-end storage of its user and systems data with a relatively u...
Article | 13/10/2010 SAP's NetWeaver isn't dead yet
SAP voiced strong support and provided an updated road map for its NetWeaver platform on Tuesday, further suggesting that the company has no immediate...
Article | 12/10/2010 Hadoop pitched for business intelligence
While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast a...
Article | 21/09/2010 IBM expands analytics with $1.7 billion Netezza buy
Expanding its business analytics offerings yet again, IBM is acquiring data warehouse appliance vendor Netezza for approximately $US1.7 billion in cas...
Article | 11/09/2010 Will Oracle buy Informatica next?
Ever-acquisitive Oracle may place data integration specialist Informatica in its sights next, according to a recent pair of surveys.
Article | 27/08/2010 Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger seen as a long shot
Rumors swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this time by SAP, but a number of industry observers said Thursday that ...
Article | 26/08/2010 Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard
As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, ...
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 | 16/08/2010 IBM buying Unica for $480 million
IBM said Friday it intends to purchase marketing software maker Unica for roughly US$480 million, in a move that will boost Big Blue's capabilities fo...
Article | 27/07/2010 OpenSSO, neglected by Oracle, gets second life
A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source Web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, ...
Article | 22/07/2010 Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible
The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory fo...
Article | 15/07/2010 Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights
A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed ...
Article | 29/06/2010 Apache upgrades Tomcat Web server
Apache Tomcat 7.0, the latest version of the popular open source Java Web server, is available Tuesday from the Apache Software Foundation.
Article | 26/06/2010 Red Hat CEO: VMware our biggest competitor
When it comes to enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat, one might assume its biggest competitors to be Oracle, Novell, Microsoft, or even IBM...
Article | 25/06/2010 Red Hat overhauls JBoss portal interface
Red Hat has released version 5.0 of its portal software, the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, the company announced Thursday at its Red Hat Summit in...