The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.
The problem with open source software is a lack of understanding, not a lack of support, according to a Novell executive who hit back at the CIOs from some of Australia's top government agencies.
In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft comprised an oligopoly for back-office business applications.
The federal judge hearing the Department of Justice v. Oracle antitrust case rejected on Friday motions from both sides to exclude all or some testimony of several expert witnesses.
Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its US$7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial here on Monday in the US.
The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.
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Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger will enhance the combined entity's standing in the enterprise software space in Australia and pose a serious threat to SAP.
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