HP closes Mercury buy
Hewlett-Packard is finally the proud owner of Mercury Interactive, after closing the US$4.5 billion (NZ$6.7 billion) purchase of the ICT management software and services player last week.
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We’re not out to kill off Red Hat: Ellison
While it wasn’t quite the Linux announcement that had been expected, Oracle’s latest move will definitely see the company butt heads with the leading distributor of the open-source operating system, Red Hat.
11g database previewed
The groundwork for the next major release of Oracle’s database, Oracle 11g, has been laid.
Sun finalises open-source Java plans
Sun Microsystems is gradually providing more details on how it plans to open source its core Java technology, delivering on a promise the company made to developers back in May at its JavaOne conference.
We'll keep on acquiring, says Oracle
Oracle remains committed to growth via acquisition, according to its president, Charles Phillips. The strategy is proving to be a cost-effective way for the company to extend its technologies and deepen its knowledge of specific industries, Phillips told attendees at Oracle’s recent OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
HP extends its offer for Mercury for third time
Hoping for a scenario of third time lucky, Hewlett-Packard has again extended the deadline for Mercury Interactive shareholders to approve HP’s US$4.5 billion (NZ$6.7 billion) pending purchase of Mercury.
IBM Hawkish on new Information Server
IBM has provided pricing details and a new name for its data integration technology, formerly code-named “Hawk”, which it acquired through its acquisition of Ascential last year.
Salesforce.com opens development tools to customers
In the hope of creating a third major revenue-generating business, Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex programming language and development platform available to users of its on-demand applications.
EMC and Microsoft dance a ‘Duet’ for ECM
EMC and Microsoft are stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship substantially to provide tighter integration between EMC’s Documentum ECM software and Microsoft’s Office, Outlook and SharePoint products.
Stock options scandal hits McAfee
A major executive shake-up is under way at security software vendor, McAfee, including the firing of the company's president in the wake of a stock-options investigation.
MySQL database monitoring service in the works
Developers at open-source player MySQL AB are hard at work on a project code-named "Merlin" designed to make it easier for customers to manage and maintain the company's database software, according to a source close to MySQL.
SAP launches Enterprise Search application
At its recent conference in Las Vegas, SAP unwrapped its Enterprise Search application, which is designed to help customers conduct specific secure queries of structured and unstructured data held in both SAP and non-SAP software.
Merged grid computing group launched
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made in June to detail its aims and organisational set-up to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference, held in Washington DC last week.
Customisation to drive next Salesforce release
Salesforce.com is starting to provide some details about the next version of its hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, including the product's primary focus, which will be customisation.
‘Flavour of the month’ Xen primed for mainstream
Xen is flavour of the month in the tech world. Not only is the open-source technology supported in the new release of Novell’s Suse Enterprise Linux distribution, but Microsoft pledged to support Xen-virtualised Linux with its forthcoming Longhorn server virtualisation technology. And don’t forget about IBM.