Western Australian Treasurer Troy Buswell has given the state's troubled shared services program a new lease of life on the condition that budget targets and implementation milestones be met.
Oracle unveiled its Applications Unlimited program on Tuesday, removing a 2013 deadline for halting development of new releases of its PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel Systems software.
Oracle has paid US$8 million to end a federal lawsuit that claimed the company charged the government for computer training that was never provided, according to a statement issued on Friday by the US Attorney's office in Boston.
PeopleSoft will continue a controversial money-back guarantee program through March 31, or until Oracle drops its US$7.3 billion bid for the company.
Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source software company.
The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.
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Two years after Chairman Bill Gates called on Microsoft to redouble its efforts to secure its software, the company is beginning to make progress, according to customers--but much work remains.
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Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
This is a powerful system that enables server administrators to very quickly restore data that may have been lost due to viruses, user error or hardware failure.
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