Microsoft released long-awaited updates to its database and programming tools to developers on Thursday in the United States and revealed a plan to lure new database customers.
BEA Systems on Thursday in the US is expected to launch a new product line that the back-end software maker hopes will expand the company's audience and perk up sales.
Sun Microsystems, looking to add market heft, is acquiring storage specialist StorageTek in a deal worth US$4.1 billion, the companies said Thursday in the US.
Oracle detailed a major foray into content management and introduced updates to its application server line, part of the company's strategy to grow revenue beyond its database business.
IBM is in discussions with its partners to create a prepackaged set of hosted applications, a move that could ultimately create an online analog to traditional packaged applications and spur market adoption of software services.
An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents.
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