Oracle delivered on Wednesday one of the first fruits of its merger with PeopleSoft, releasing new versions of the accounting and supply chain applications it gained in the January acquisition.
Oracle announced on Monday that it has increased its PeopleSoft takeover bid to US$24 a share, calling the figure its "best and final" offer for its rival.
In an interview with ZDNet, Oracle marketing chief Mark Jarvis managed to critique most of the competition. Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel? All history. IBM? A copycat. Microsoft? Vulnerable.
Software maker Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld CEO Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker, a US federal judge has ruled.
Microsoft last week launched a hostile US$44.6bn takeover bid to buy Web giant Yahoo. If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions the tech sector has witnessed in recent years.
The enterprise software maker plans to double the work force at its two research centers in India, bringing the total to about 6,000 employees.
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
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One year on, the postmerger company is hanging on to most PeopleSoft customers, but some big tests still lie ahead. We look at what has passed and what is yet to come.
Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
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Oracle is betting on the lure of cost savings and the strength of its database to help sell its new product, Oracle Collaboration Suite. Get an advance look at this competitor to Microsoft Exchange.
A deal cinched Wednesday could help Microsoft tackle a long-standing problem: How to sell new software to customers reluctant to give up a 7-year-old version of Windows.
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