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    Business intelligence software from Pentaho is to be integrated into the next version of OpenOffice, the open-source application suite.

  • Business Objects signals Eclipse move

    Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform.

  • Web accelerators solve network bottleneck

    Rather than add bandwidth to handle rapidly increasing traffic to its Web site, Bizrate.com installed Real Time Acceleration appliances--and saved money in the process.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • IBM snaps up stake in open source database firm

    IBM has taken a minority stake in EnterpriseDB, an open source database that competes with Oracle and MySQL.

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    Despite threat of Linux and open source, software powerhouse's Server and Tools division brings home double-digital revenue growth -- again.

  • The open source guide to the galaxy

    Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • The state of ERP

    Looking to enhance your business with an ERP system? Here's our round-up of the top vendors.

  • Database start-ups bet on open source

    Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.

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    At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.

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    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

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