Microsoft says it would deal with new Yahoo board
In a statement Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company.
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Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray
Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecom is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Long-awaited JBoss AS 5.0 moves closer to release date
The first release candidate of Red Hat's long-brewing JBoss Application Server 5.0 will be available imminently, according to a blog post by Sacha Labourey, chief technology officer of Red Hat's JBoss division.
IDC: Oracle maintains lead in database market
The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC.
Second Oracle insurance buy
Oracle has bought insurance, legal and financial services software maker Skywire Software's application business.
Salesforce makes Google move
Taking it nascent relationship with Google one step closer, Salesforce.com has released a toolkit for working with Google's data services APIs (application programming interfaces).
Non-compete pacts bad for tech innovation: panel
Employee non-compete agreements have stifled tech start-up development in Massachusetts, where the pacts are aggressively enforced, but failed to hold back the IT industry boom in states like California, where they are mostly unenforceable, a panel at Harvard University has concluded.
SAP to pay US$83.3 million in patent settlement
SAP has agreed to pay i2 Technologies, maker of SCM (supply chain management) software, US$83.3 million to settle a patent claim i2 brought against the enterprise software maker.
Damages in SAP-TN suit could be US$1 billion
Attorneys representing Oracle in the company's lawsuit against rival SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary have for the first time publicly put a dollar figure — "likely" US$1 billion or more — on the damages they believe the enterprise software maker deserves.
Oracle posts strong Q4, full-year results
Showing strong growth amid a worldwide economic downturn, Oracle on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenues of US$7.2 billion, a 24 percent rise compared to the same quarter last year, and total revenue for fiscal 2008 of $22.4 billion, up 25 percent.
Predicting the future of enterprise search
A start-up company called Powerset gained a slew of headlines recently when it launched a beta version of its search engine, which like other offerings employs natural language processing, allowing users to search sets of information in the form of questions.
Google beefs up Mini search appliance for SMBs
Google's Mini search appliance for small and midsize businesses has grown a new set of capabilities for crawling and categorizing documents, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday.
SugarCRM launches data center edition
Customers and partners of open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM will be able to deploy and manage a number of instances of the software through a new management console, the company announced Wednesday.
HP-EDS deal spurs range of customer reactions
Customers of Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems offered a range of reactions Tuesday to HP's US$13.9 billion bid for the massive outsourcing company.
IBM buys Infodyne
IBM has scooped up Infodyne, a privately held maker of software that quickly crunches hundreds of market data sources together into a standardised form for the trading industry.