The chief technology officer of Software AG has laughed off suggestions that Java is a business language.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday in the US plans to launch a software package aimed at the RFID market.
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.
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday.
Software maker SAP on Thursday recruited Microsoft and IBM as part of a new initiative to simplify how companies build their business systems.
Being a Microsoft or Java fanatic may be admirable in some IT roles. IT development management isn't one of them.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
Linux seller Red Hat has announced its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers, taking direct aim at Microsoft. Additional reading: Open Source Resource Centre
Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.
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