Stories by Chris Kanaracus

IBM to buy FilesX

IBM has signed an agreement to buy storage software vendor FilesX.

Multicore, clouds, social networks set to disrupt: Gartner

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.

Oracle customers, reps seek bargains at Q3 end

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.

GPLv3 projects top 2,000

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.

Primary databases bloated: analyst firm

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.

ODF editor: ODF loses if OOXML does

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 buys NLP vendor

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.

UK group: licensing is misleading consumers

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.

New Sybase offering

Sybase has entered the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle's Real Application Clusters.

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