Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 14/05/2010 What Sybase customers should expect from SAP

Sybase users and partners are wondering how the company's technologies will fare under the pending ownership of SAP, but some of the answers are easie...

Article | 13/05/2010 SAP to buy Sybase for $US5.8 billion

SAP is buying mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly US$5.8 billion, the company announced Wednesday.

Article | 13/05/2010 SAP reportedly buying Sybase for $6 billion

SAP is nearing a deal to buy mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly US$6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing two individuals with ...

Article | 12/05/2010 Epicor aims at manufacturers with new SaaS app

Epicor is joining the on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) fray with a new application aimed at small manufacturing companies as well as compe...

Article | 12/05/2010 IBM points predictive analytics at social Web

The next time you choose an emoticon to spice up a comment about a company, product or service online, know this: There's a chance that a software pro...

Article | 12/05/2010 Microsoft CTO discusses IT's future apart from the cloud

Despite the unrelenting hype around cloud computing, it's just one aspect of several that will shape the next generation of enterprise IT, according t...

Article | 5/05/2010 Startup wants to be R alternative to IBM, SAS

A company focused on R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, relaunched under a new name Tuesday and gave a preview of its technology ro...

Article | 5/05/2010 Microsoft CIO talks cloud, economic rebound

In one way, the global recession "felt like more of the same" for Microsoft CIO Tony Scott. "The boss comes in and says, 'We want to cut costs.'"

Article | 4/05/2010 SAP, Waste Management settle lawsuit

The rancorous lawsuit between SAP and Waste Management has been settled, with the software vendor making an undisclosed, one-time cash payment to the ...

Article | 4/05/2010 IBM buys data-integration vendor Cast Iron

IBM bolstered its data-integration portfolio Monday, announcing the acquisition of Cast Iron Systems, which focuses on connecting on-premise systems w...

Article | 4/05/2010 Oracle resumes construction of massive data centre

Oracle has started up work again on a large data centre in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area, after suspending the project without public explanation las...

Article | 29/04/2010 Users advised to be careful with Oracle ULAs

Oracle's unlimited license agreements (ULAs) can make great sense for companies that want to use a lot of the vendor's software, but a number of poten...

Article | 28/04/2010 Ex-SAP CEO talks about 'the next big thing' in IT

Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker isn't interested in talking too much about his former employer, from which he departed abruptly in February after the vendor'...

Article | 27/04/2010 Microsoft exec: We and users win with cloud

Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason -- it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs,...

Article | 23/04/2010 Appirio making $1 million cloud savings promise

Appirio launched a new offer Thursday, pledging that if customers who use its "cloudsourcing" services to migrate entirely to public cloud application...