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  • SAS dismisses Teradata merger talk

    SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business-intelligence company might merge with its former rival, data warehousing software company Teradata.

  • Hyperion head joins Capiotech

    Local IT services firm Capiotech today revealed it had nabbed Thomas Palmer, the former head of Hyperion Australia and New Zealand, to be its new managing director.

  • IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion

    IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction.

  • Microsoft buys into master data management

    Microsoft on Thursday said it has acquired privately held Stratature, a company that specialises in so-called master data management software.

  • Oracle buys Hyperion for US$3.3 billion

    Oracle announced on Thursday that it has agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions for US$3.3 billion, in a move to expand in the area of performance management systems.

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  • IBM leads software comeback?

    Despite strong growth in software sales at IBM, only certain parts of the enterprise software market are set to rebound this year.

  • Survival of software's fittest

    In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.

  • Study: More software gloom ahead

    There are still too many companies selling too much software to too few people; a situation that will continue till 2007, according to Ovum.

  • Smart software: Grunt work included

    There's an emerging class of software that could reduce dramatically the number of wheels that developers and IT shops keep reinventing.

  • Case study: Western Power quality tool

    Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

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