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Article | 30/04/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech sales stay strong
Though there were some concerns about tech company earnings this week as Microsoft, SAP and other bellwethers reported results, the IT sector has help...
Article | 30/04/2011 SAP project woes impact Ingram Micro's profits
Problems with an SAP software implementation in Australia dragged down technology distributor Ingram Micro's first-quarter profits, the company said t...
Article | 28/04/2011 SAP Q1 revenue up, but profits growth slow
SAP saw revenue rise by 21 percent in the quarter ended March 31, with double-digit growth in all regions driven by increased software business from p...
Article | 27/04/2011 Customer fights subpoena in Oracle-Rimini suit
Oracle has subpoenaed scores of Rimini Street customers in connection with its intellectual property suit against the third-party software maintenance...
Article | 18/04/2011 Key SaaS software executive leaving SAP
SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS (software as a service) strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after ...
Article | 16/04/2011 How to get the best deal from Oracle
Oracle is now in its fourth quarter, meaning the vendor and its customers are locked in the annual ritual of trying to get new deals done before the f...
Article | 13/04/2011 Microsoft's cloud ERP plans get mixed reactions
Microsoft's announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform ...
Article | 9/04/2011 Dell to spend $1B on cloud services this year
As the market for cloud services grows, the big enterprise IT vendors are moving swiftly to develop cloud offerings that cater to their respective mar...
Article | 7/04/2011 Others drawn into Oracle, Rimini Street legal fray
Three other providers of third-party software maintenance have been drawn into the legal battle between Oracle and Rimini Street, a Las Vegas company ...
Article | 23/03/2011 SAP takes on IBM, Oracle with new GRC suite
SAP is hoping to cement its foothold in the growing market for GRC (governance, risk and compliance) software with a new suite, announced Wednesday, t...
Article | 19/03/2011 Wall Street Beat: Quake rocks tech stocks
The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 took a tragic toll on human life but also rocked markets this week, sending shares o...
Article | 18/03/2011 SAP plans cloud version of HANA
SAP plans to offer a version of its HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) software that will allow customers to upload data to the vendor's own c...
Article | 17/03/2011 Java EE 7 specification gets unanimous approval
The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5162">accor...
Article | 12/03/2011 SAP, IBM team up on in-memory analytics
SAP announced Friday it has integrated its in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) with IBM's DB2 database, a move that underscores the c...
Article | 11/03/2011 Security conference dives into SAP coding problems
The Black Hat Europe conference in Barcelona next week will feature a keynote on cyberwar from Bruce Schneier, and presentations on security flaws in ...