Latest GPLv3 takes hard line on MS, Novell deal
The Free Software Foundation Wednesday released the penultimate draft of its planned third version of a popular license for free and open-source software, the GNU general public license (GPL).
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Oracle to buy in-memory data grid company
Oracle Corp. plans to purchase Tangosol Inc., a U.S. provider of in-memory data grid software, as a way to further extend its Fusion middleware and make it more appealing to users where rapid access to data is critical to their businesses.
Oracle sues SAP for 'corporate theft'
Oracle took its bitter rivalry with business applications vendor SAP up another notch, filing suit Thursday against SAP alleging violations of U.S. fraud legislation, unfair competition and civil conspiracy.
Microsoft ups Dynamics' industry focus
Microsoft wants to make its Dynamics business applications more immediately relevant to customers in five vertical markets -- manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and the public sector.
Oracle extends reach of specialised search software
Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software it released last year, emphasising new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems.
Hype-free show for Oracle apps launch
Oracle’s launch of new releases of its five application families was a surprisingly sober affair, designed to restate the company’s pledge last year to continue to enhance its PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite products.
HP and SAP strengthen relationship via SOA push
Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting SAP’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies’ increasingly close relationship.
Salesforce.com encourages SaaS imitators
Salesforce.com has positioned the latest version of its on-demand software, which includes its Apex platform, as providing the necessary tools for other companies to emulate its success in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market.
Oracle: managing move into Linux space
Oracle is making further in-roads into the Linux space by providing management tools for the open-source operating system. This comes after its surprise announcement in October that it will provide full global support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.
HP rejigs software operation, creates BI unit
In the midst of a company-wide restructuring effort, Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in an ongoing reorganisation of its software operation. It has established a new unit to bring together its business intelligence and information-management expertise, which is currently spread out across the company.
IBM takes community approach to SOA
IBM has announced the first two in a planned series of eight centres around the world designed to help build up local expertise in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to IT development.
Most Vista work came in last two years
It may have taken Microsoft half a decade to bring out a new version of its client operating system, but the real development work on Windows Vista only took around two years, says Steve Ballmer.
EMC to offer embedded version of Documentum
EMC Corp. is looking to drum up more market share and revenue for its Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) software. The vendor will announce Monday plans to offer a version of the product specifically designed to meet the needs of application vendors so that they can embed Documentum into their software.
PeopleSoft co-founder’s new hosted ERP venture
Dave Duffield has returned to the ERP fold after keeping a low profile following Oracle’s 18-month hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, which ended in December 2004 with Oracle successfully buying PeopleSoft.
Sun open sources Java under GPL
It's not every day your boss puts you on the spot, but that's exactly what the head of Sun Microsystems did to his chief software executive as they both celebrated the vendor's move to make its core Java platform freely available.