Since the launch of Apple's App Store, a steady stream of business-oriented applications have become available for iPhone users.
Back-end software makers BEA Systems and Sybase have joined the Eclipse open-source foundation, lending two more established companies to the organisation.
Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform.
The company's implication - that an open-source licence subjects licensees to intolerable restrictions that a commercial licence does not - is an invitation to apply additional scrutiny. So we did.
Oracle laid out the pros and cons of nine potential acquisitions, offering in court documents a rare glimpse into the software maker's merger mindset when sizing up potential deals.
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.
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Oracle has finally jumped on the "free" database bandwagon, joining the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sybase. Will users bite?
New features planned for IBM's DB2 database server software will automate common administrative tasks and take advantage of growing interest in low-cost server hardware, the company says.
The rivalry is nothing new, but Ellison's acquisition strategy is infusing it with new vigour -- and may redefine an industry.
Many users are faced with the difficulty of designing solid databases, but once the database is in place, they are confronted with the even more difficult task of generating quality reports from the data.
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
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We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
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