Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 7/02/2013 Ex-partner charges Oracle with waging 'systematic attack' against third-party support

Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market a...

Article | 6/02/2013 SAP user groups unhappy with upcoming support fee increase

SAP user groups aren't pleased with the vendor's announcement this week that new customers will soon pay more for Standard Support, but at least so fa...

Article | 6/02/2013 Salesforce.com set to build out Chatterbox with EntropySoft acquisition

Salesforce.com has quietly acquired a startup called EntropySoft, a maker of content management and integration software, in a move likely meant to bo...

Article | 5/02/2013 SAP payroll software woes plague electric utility for months

Electric utility National Grid is still trying to resolve problems with its recently implemented SAP payroll system that cropped up after Hurricane Sa...

Article | 4/02/2013 SAP to hike Standard Support fees on new contracts

SAP is planning to impose a higher price on its Standard Support software maintenance offering later this year, with the increase applying only to new...

Article | 1/02/2013 Oracle loses appeal of ruling in Hewlett-Packard suit

A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to...

Article | 1/02/2013 SAP partner program expands to account for cloud applications

SAP's burgeoning portfolio of cloud-based applications has prompted it to make some changes to its PartnerEdge channel program.

Article | 31/01/2013 Oracle database 12c close to general release, sources say

The general availability of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely occur within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Ser...

Article | 31/01/2013 Long-desired Java feature misses deadlines, won't make it into Java EE 7

Java EE (Enterprise Edition) programmers will have to wait a bit longer before they can use JCache, a long-desired standard caching API (application p...

Article | 30/01/2013 Salesforce.com 'aggressively investigating' database error

Salesforce.com is "aggressively investigating" a database software error that led to temporary performance problems in part of its infrastructure.

Article | 29/01/2013 Gartner: Social business software efforts largely unsuccessful, for now

Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they're not getting much good from them, according to analyst firm...

Article | 29/01/2013 Puerto Rican government agency claims Infor's negligence cost it $9 million

Infor is being sued by a Puerto Rican tax authority on grounds that its failure to maintain software used by the organization racked up US$9 million i...

Article | 25/01/2013 Oracle's Java security head: We will 'fix Java,' communicate better

Oracle's head of Java security is promising the vendor will "fix" issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach ef...

Article | 25/01/2013 Senate to probe failed Air Force software project as lawmakers call for stop to IT waste

The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate what happened with a massive, failed U.S. Air Force ERP (enterprise resource planning) projec...

Article | 24/01/2013 Gartner: Hadoop will be in two-thirds of advanced analytics products by 2015

The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market...