Oracle unveiled a new open enterprise software application on Monday in the US, designed to improve the way users collaborate and communicate on projects.
Oracle's latest price list for its growing portfolio of applications software contains significant increases across the range, and a particularly large price rise for its BEA software.
Oracle announced Tuesday it completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems, bringing to a close a contentious buyout effort that began last spring.
Open-source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by US$60 billion a year, according to research.
Oracle on Wednesday received a green light from regulators to move forward on its merger plans with BEA Systems.
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Longhaus' Sam Higgins and Perth developer Chris Muir give the Australian reaction to announcements at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US this week.
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With Yahoo apparently off the table, what's Microsoft's back-up plan? Try again for Yahoo or go for a new target?
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
After a resounding "no" on its unsolicited buyout offer for Yahoo, Redmond will either up the ante or ready a one-two punch.
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM.
The Web portal is set to announce an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software.
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Macromedia on Tuesday announced new versions of its applications server software.
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