Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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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...

Article | 22/04/2010 Salesforce.com buying contact-data vendor Jigsaw

Salesforce.com said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy Jigsaw, a cloud-based vendor of business contact data, for roughly US$142 million in cash. T...

Article | 21/04/2010 Microsoft GP 2010 features integrations, BI

Microsoft on Tuesday pulled the wraps off Dynamics GP 2010, the latest version of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for smaller compa...

Article | 21/04/2010 Oracle now charging US$90 for ODF-Office plug-in

Oracle has imposed a fee of US$90 per user on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available at no cost under Sun Microsystems' ownership.

Article | 20/04/2010 IBM Q1 profit jumps 16 percent

IBM on Monday reported first-quarter earnings of US$1.97 per share on $22.9 billion in revenue, a rise of 16 percent and 5 percent, respectively, over...

Article | 17/04/2010 Oracle buying drug trials software maker for $US685 million

Oracle on Friday announced plans to buy Phase Forward, which develops software for drug manufacturers, for about US $685 million. The deal is expected...

Article | 15/04/2010 NetSuite hooks up with Amazon's storage cloud

NetSuite has integrated its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3), the company a...

Article | 15/04/2010 'IT genome' an effort to map tech 'DNA'

IT discovery vendor BDNA on Wednesday unveiled Technopedia, what it calls the world's first "IT Genome," a regularly updated encyclopedia of informati...

Article | 15/04/2010 Startup pushes Hadoop via spreadsheet

A startup called Datameer is offering a simpler way for business analysts to use Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale data processing on ...

Article | 13/04/2010 Greenplum's Chorus builds data marts from multiple sources

Database and data warehousing vendor Greenplum plans Monday to unveil Chorus, a bundle of software that allows users to quickly provision new data mar...

Article | 13/04/2010 Salesforce.com, VMware set to launch 'VMForce'

Salesforce.com and VMware are forging a high-profile partnership, according to a Web site announcing an April 27 event being held by the companies.

Article | 9/04/2010 Oracle chief architect to reveal MySQL strategy

MySQL users are set to receive fresh information about Oracle's road map for the open-source database during a keynote address by Chief Corporate Arch...

Article | 8/04/2010 NetSuite rolling out 'codeless' customization tool

NetSuite customers and partners have long been able to make tweaks to the on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite, but on Wednesday the ven...

Article | 8/04/2010 IBM responds to Oracle's Exadata with new systems

IBM on Wednesday announced a new range of integrated systems for large-scale data analysis, mounting a fresh challenge to rival Oracle's Exadata platf...

Article | 7/04/2010 CA cutting 1000 jobs

CA is planning to cut about 1000 jobs, or roughly 7.7 percent of its workforce, according to a document filed Tuesday with the US Securities & Exchang...