Months before Saleforce.com and Google integrated their Web applications, Salesforce.com offered to buy Zoho, a direct competitor of Google Apps.
Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced the launch of AppExchange, an online marketplace for hosted business software applications.
Hewlett-Packard stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture Monday, announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive.
Oracle said on Friday that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development.
IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once.
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SAP is expected to debut on Thursday a hosted CRM software service, as the business applications software giant steps into an increasingly crowded field.
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Oracle will release a new version of its set of business applications next month, repositioning some programs to take advantage of a trend and adding features that move the company into a market it's not yet tapped.
Business software maker SAP has unveiled plans to enhance its set of manufacturing applications and added a freight-tracking program to its transportation management system.
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