Stories by Chris Kanaracus

JDA to buy i2

JDA Software Group has agreed to acquire i2 Technologies for roughly US$346 million (NZ$496 bilion) in cash.

SAP fires back at Waste Management

SAP attorneys have filed a counterclaim to the lawsuit Waste Management filed in March over dissatisfaction with an enterprise resource planning implementation, asserting the vendor's innocence and charging in turn that the trash-disposal company violated the deal's contract.

SAS buys revenue management software vendor

Business intelligence vendor SAS is buying IDeaS Revenue Optimization, maker of revenue-management software for the hospitality sector, in a move that could serve to differentiate SAS from major competitors like SAP and IBM.

SuccessFactors integrates with Google Apps

The ecosystem around Google Apps grew a little broader on Monday, as on-demand performance and talent management vendor SuccessFactors disclosed that it has integrated some of its tools with Google's hosted productivity suite and other Google services.

Curl completes embrace of Eclipse IDE

Rich Internet application vendor Curl will announce Tuesday that it has completed its initial transition over to the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) with a set of Eclipse plug-ins, Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE).

EDS shareholders approve sale to HP

EDS stockholders on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the sale of the giant systems integrator to Hewlett-Packard, bringing the $13.9 billion deal one important step closer to completion.

JavaFX SDK preview release imminent

Sometime this week, developers will be able to get their hands on a preview SDK (software development kit) for JavaFX, Sun's entry into the RIA (rich Internet application) framework wars, according to an official company blog post.

Oracle broadens allegations against SAP

Oracle on Monday filed an amended complaint in its ongoing lawsuit against SAP, charging that top executives bought SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary even while knowing it had an "illegal" business model.

Open-source quality checker

The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open-source software quality-checking tool.

CRM market up 23 percent in '07: Gartner

Global spending on CRM (customer relationship management) software surged in 2007 to roughly US$8.1 billion (NZ$10.7 billion), a 23.1% jump over 2006's total of about US$6.6 billion, according to research firm Gartner.

Oracle pushes BI to the iPhone

Oracle is jumping on the iPhone bandwagon, releasing Business Indicators, the first in a planned wave of applications for the red-hot mobile device.

Adobe readying new mashup tool for business users

Adobe is developing a mashup interface code-named "Genesis" that will allow business users to pull together "workspaces" that combine assets like business application data, documents and analytics, along with collaboration tools such as instant messaging.

Google open-sources data exchange language

Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases, according to official company blog posts and documents.

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