IDG News Service-Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database,which first became generally available last year.According to SAP,HANA ...
IDG News Service-Workday on Monday unveiled a new set of enhancements to its cloud-based ERP software aimed at winning business from large multinational companies. The announcement,made as Workday begins its Workday Rising user ...
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IDG News Service-The PaaS(platform as a service)market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year,up from last year's$900 million take,as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones,according ...
Tags: platform as a service, analyst firm Gartner, sharp growth
Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
Tags: tech stocks, computer companies, Nasdaq, European debt crisis
IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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RedPrairie is merging with fellow supply-chain software vendor JDA in a deal worth roughly $1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday, just days after reports surfaced that JDA had put itself up for sale. The deal is expected to close ...
IBM, Epicor and other vendors could be eyeing a purchase of supply-chain software vendor JDA, analysts said Tuesday following a published report that the company was looking for suitors. The sale activities are "at an advanced stage," ...
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IDG News Service - Infor has certified some of its products for Red Hat's Linux and JBoss middleware and added support for the MySQL and MariaDB databases, as part of a new push into open-source software, the companies announced Wednesday. ...
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IDG News Service - SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, which said that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. "We recently spent ...
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IDG News Service - A judge on Tuesday ordered Oracle to pay about $1 million to Google for costs related to the companies' lawsuit over the Android mobile operating system. The ruling is only a partial victory for Google, which had ...
A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
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Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo. Terms of the deal, which ...
Tags: Oracle, SelectMinds, Taleo acquisition, Computer Products
Jenkins, the open source continuous integration server that forked out of Oracle's Hudson project, is facing several security vulnerabilities Monday, with the Jenkins project leader recommending upgrades to the Jenkins core and some ...
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IDG News Service-Fortifying its resources for the high-performance computing(HPC)market,Intel has purchased Whamcloud,a commercial purveyor of the open-source Lustre file system.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel plans to use ...
IDG News Service - The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system. Hundreds ...
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