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• Oracle buys yet again

  Oracle has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom, a provider of network intelligence and network data integrity software. It plans to add Netsure's products to its communications applications suite.

• Oracle to broaden use of new data grid software

  Oracle has released the first version of the Coherence in-memory data grid software since it bought the vendor of that software, Tangosol, earlier this year. Over time, Oracle hopes to dramatically widen the appeal of the product.

• Orion Health teams with Oracle and Intel in Spain

  Auckland-based Orion Health is teaming up with Intel and Oracle in a clinical mobility pilot project being conducted in Spain. The mobile patient information system is being trialled at the Hospital Universitario Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca.

• Florist firm sends EnterpriseDB a bouquet

  EnterpriseDB has signed up FTD Group, a florist, as a customer. The move seems to be a vote of confidence for the fledgling database company, which is trying to poach customers from Oracle with the promise of lower licence fees and compatibility with Oracle applications.

• Idoine trumpets customer benefits in Oracle acquisitions

  Since Oracle’s new country manager arrived in March, the company has aquired two new companies, the latest instalments in an almost unprecedented $US25 billion (NZ$34 billion) 32-company series of acquisitions since January 2004.

• No sign of slowdown in Oracle’s buying spree

  Oracle is to acquire Agile Software, a PLM (product lifecycle management) solution provider.

• Oracle to buy Agile for US$495 million

  Oracle plans to pay US$495 million (NZ$671 million) to buy Agile Software, a maker of product lifecycle management software.

• Oracle revamps and rebrands Stellent

  Not long after unveiling a roadmap for its enterprise content management (ECM) software, Oracle has released the first of the revamped products laid out in that strategy.

• Oracle ships updated World ERP software

  Oracle has unveiled an extensive upgrade of the once-moribund World ERP suite, fulfilling promises made to users after its acquisition of PeopleSoft.

• NZ Post’s SOA move cuts operational costs by 70%

  NZ Post is claiming a 70% reduction in IT operating costs, after moving to a service-oriented architecture and open-source operating system — despite saying it is just 30% through its transformation journey.

• Oracle and IBM join services consortium

  IBM and Oracle, more often rivals than partners, have joined in helping create an industry consortium that is focused on establishing what it calls “service science”.

• US open source-based company takes on Oracle

  US-based EnterpriseDB will open an office in Sydney partly to service the New Zealand market and its one local reference site, the Inland Revenue Department.

• Oracle increases Skope with cool Christchurch JDE deal

  Twenty years of working with an in-house manufacturing system is coming to an end at Christchurch-based Skope Industries, because supporting the technology has become too difficult.

• 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.

• An “Unbreakable MySQL” is unlikely to materialise

  In October, Oracle sent Red Hat’s stock plummeting on the announcement that it would offer cut-rate support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, under the “Unbreakable Linux” brand. Could Larry Ellison now be planning a repeat with “Unbreakable MySQL”?