IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US.
IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.
Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.
An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.
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Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.
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