IBM buys Diligent
IBM has acquired Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
IBM has acquired Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
IBM has signed an agreement to buy storage software vendor FilesX.
Multicore processors, cloud computing, user interfaces, social networks/social software and Web mashups top a list of 10 "disruptive technologies'' set to reshape the IT landscape between 2008 and 2012, according to Gartner analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch.
A head of a consulting firm that helps Oracle customers cut licensing deals with the enterprise software giant says that fallout around Oracle's recent earnings announcement could help clients out at the bargaining table.
The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public Licence Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source code within a customer's code base.
A Gartner study finds that IT spending has so far been largely unaffected, despite the ongoing signs of weakness in the US and global economies.
A recent study by Enterprise Strategy Group has found that databases used for daily processing tasks are ballooning at a double-digit rate each year, and may contain piles of inactive data.
Open-source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft is claiming that it is now the world's most widely deployed BI product.
Oracle said Wednesday that its third-quarter revenues were up 21 percent to US$5.3 billion compared to the same quarter last year, defying the widespread malaise in the U.S. economy.
The editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer.
SAS has purchased Teragram, a natural language processing (NLP) software vendor, in a bid to boost its existing technologies for text mining and business intelligence.
If you've watched "The Lord of the Rings" or many other visual effects-driven Hollywood films, you have seen Massive Software's 3-D animation software at work.
Besides launching a set of updated products last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lauded the company's IT user base, calling them the "heart and soul" of the industry.
The National Consumer Council (NCC), a British consumer advocacy group, is alleging that several major software companies engage in misleading and unfair practices related to end-user licence agreements, and has asked the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to investgate.
Sybase has entered the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle's Real Application Clusters.