Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 4/11/2009 Microsoft pushes switchover deal for CRM Online

Microsoft is trying to steal away Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand customers with a new offer that will provide them with six months' access to...

Article | 3/11/2009 Aster adds 'data-application server' in version 4.0

Aster Data Systems on Monday is introducing version 4.0 of its MPP (massively parallel processing) analytic database that allows customers to move app...

Article | 31/10/2009 Microsoft discontinues accounting software

Microsoft is spiking its Office Accounting software family and will stop distributing the products as of Nov. 16, according to a posting on the compan...

Article | 30/10/2009 Oracle sheds new light on future of Sun technologies

Oracle has provided new details about its plans for certain key Sun Microsystems technologies, including the GlassFish application server and the NetB...

Article | 29/10/2009 SAS CEO unfazed by IBM analytics challenge

If SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight is feeling pressured by IBM's recent US$1.2 billion purchase of rival predictive analytics vendor SPSS, he's not sh...

Article | 27/10/2009 IBM showcases new analytics capabilities

IBM will announce a range of additions to its already-burgeoning portfolio of BI (business intelligence) tools on Monday during its annual Information...

Article | 23/10/2009 Salesforce.com's Service Cloud sparks legal storm

A Georgia company has filed suit in federal court against Salesforce.com, saying the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's use of ...

Article | 20/10/2009 BMC buys Tideway for component tracking tools

BMC Software said Monday it has signed a deal to buy London startup Tideway Systems, which makes software for tracking and analyzing IT system compone...

Article | 15/10/2009 Ellison: Fusion Applications in 2010

Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service),...

Article | 13/10/2009 Oracle: 11g Xpress Edition 'a year or two' away

It may be "a year or two" before Oracle releases a no-cost Express Edition (XE) of its 11g database, according to Andrew Mendelsohn, the company's sen...

Article | 9/10/2009 Ellison mocks Salesforce.com's 'itty bitty' application

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison mocked on-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com during a shareholder meeting Wednesday, saying its "itty bitty" application depend...

Article | 1/10/2009 SAP, Salesforce.com make apps with Google Wave

Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.

Article | 28/09/2009 SAP offers 'free' CRM for ERP buyers

SAP said this week that midsize companies that purchase the Business All-in-One suite or SAP ERP will also receive its CRM (customer relationship mana...

Article | 25/09/2009 NetSuite adds ERP support for iPhone

NetSuite on Wednesday plans to unveil a new native application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users of its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource...

Article | 24/09/2009 Study shows open-source code quality improving

The overall number of defects in open-source projects is dropping, a new study by vendor Coverity has found.