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    OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

  • Microsoft and Cisco sing the co-opetition tune

    Microsoft and Cisco plan to work more closely together to ensure their products interoperate, while remaining fierce rivals in other markets.

  • SAP, Microsoft draw battle lines

    Lani Spund is SAP's worst nightmare.

  • SAP boosts portfolio with new acquisitions

    SAP announced on Monday the acquisition of an enterprise communications software developer and the planned buyout of an identity management applications maker.

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    Indian IT services giant Infosys has beefed up its consulting division, with plans to buy UK-based SAP consultant Axon Group for 407.1 million.

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  • Will Microsoft buy Red Hat?

    OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

  • SAP vs. PeopleSoft: The gloves are off

    PeopleSoft casts aspersions on the flexibility and adaptability of its competitor, SAP. The bombastic rhetoric is a side show, however. The issue for enterprises is which vendor can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

  • Survival of software's fittest

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

  • SAP to buy risk-management software firm

    SAP announced on Monday plans to acquire Virsa Systems, a regulatory-compliance and risk-management software company.

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    Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

  • Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

    Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

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