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Article | 18/02/2010 Salesforce.com launches private beta for Chatter

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a private beta program for Chatter, the enterprise collaboration platform first announced last year, positioning...

Article | 18/02/2010 Oracle making new push into social services software

Oracle has its heart set on dominating the social services software market, in which its rival SAP has historically had a strong hand.

Article | 12/02/2010 SAP makes more executive changes

The high-profile shakeup at SAP's top executive levels continued Thursday with the announcement that executive board member John Schwarz, viewed by so...

Article | 10/02/2010 Oracle launches worldwide cloud-computing tour

Oracle has officially put both legs on the cloud-computing bandwagon, recently launching a roughly 50-date global road show on the topic for developer...

Article | 6/02/2010 Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search

Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this...

Article | 4/02/2010 IBM buying MDM vendor Initiate Systems

IBM announced Wednesday that it plans to buy MDM (master data management) vendor Initiate Systems. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in t...

Article | 3/02/2010 Oracle unplugs Sun's virtual world

Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems' Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, according to a Jan. 30 p...

Article | 1/02/2010 SaaS BI will be big in 2010

Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the c...

Article | 2/02/2010 Setback for SAP in Oracle suit

Oracle has won a battle regarding the way damages can be calculated in its intellectual property lawsuit against SAP, according to a ruling filed Jan....

Article | 27/01/2010 Talend reveals open-source MDM

An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from th...

Article | 27/01/2010 Oracle sues Rimini Street for intellectual property theft

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against third-party maintenance provider Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin, alleging the parties have been engaged in "m...

Article | 25/01/2010 Infor looks to raise profile, develops open SOA

Although Infor is one of the largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors in the world after SAP and Oracle, you might never know it from scanni...

Article | 21/01/2010 IBM buying National Interest Security Company

Hoping to get a bigger piece of the U.S. defense budget, IBM announced Wednesday that it is buying security and analytics consultancy National Interes...

Article | 20/01/2010 SQL Server 2008 R2 release set for May

SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, will be generally available in May, the company said Tuesday.

Article | 14/01/2010 What's on Salesforce.com's shopping list?

Salesforce.com's move this week to raise US$500 million through a debt offering has observers speculating the on-demand CRM (customer relationship man...