BSM buy for Novell
Novell is to buy Managed Objects, a maker of BSM (business service management) software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Oracle to buy project portfolio management player
Continuing its relentless streak of acquisitions in recent years, Oracle has announced plans to buy Primavera Software, which makes project portfolio management (PPM) applications.
Japanese telco partners with EnterpriseDB
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan's largest telecommunications company, has formed a "wide-ranging strategic partnership" with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed financial investment in the open-source database maker.
SAP warns on Q3 earnings, cites economy
Turmoil in the world's stock markets over the past several weeks and resulting concern among customers caused "a very sudden and unexpected drop in business activity" at the end of SAP's third fiscal quarter, the company said Monday.
Cisco to buy IM vendor
Cisco Systems plans to buy instant messaging platform vendor Jabber, a move that could heighten its battle with Microsoft over the collaboration and office communications market.
Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion
Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications during a Q&A session with reporters at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, but did reveal more details of the vendor's plans around cloud computing.
Oracle updates database, middleware lineup
While offering no major bombshells, Oracle announced a series of updates across its product lines on Monday, including the first patch update to its flagship 11g database.
Oracle to make new push for government business
Oracle is planning to launch iGovernment, a product initiative aimed at the public sector, at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next week.
Infobright releases open-source data warehouse
Analytic data warehousing vendor Infobright is releasing an open-source data warehousing product under the GPL v2 license, and has gained Sun Microsystems as an investor through a US$10 million round of venture funding, the startup announced Monday.
Business Objects updates metadata manager
Business Objects has released Metadata Management XI 3.0, its product for collecting and managing "data about data" within a company.
Oracle said to be making progress on Fusion apps
Observers say Oracle has finally made substantial progress on its next-generation Fusion Applications suite, more than three-and-a-half years after the project was first announced.
SOA buy for Oracle
Oracle is to buy ClearApp, a maker of software for managing the performance of composite applications in SOA (service-oriented architecture) environments.
Judge raps Ellison over missing emails
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison failed to preserve emails as well as interview materials related to a book called "Softwar" that should have been supplied in connection with a shareholder lawsuit filed in March 2001 against the company, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Study: Grim outlook for US IT spending
US companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found.
Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel
Oracle has developed prebuilt integration software for its CRM On Demand product and the on-premise Siebel CRM, providing customers with a single view of their CRM data, the company announced Wednesday.