Gartner analysts predict that technology as a service (TaaS) will play a major role in future procurement, with its pay by use model set to cut user upfront costs and reduce vendor margins.
As part of its overall services push, Microsoft has been quietly trying to figure out just what it can offer up to large corporations.
Oracle on Wednesday announced plans to issue new versions of its enterprise content management products over the next 12 months, as it seeks to bolster its presence in an increasingly competitive market.
Microsoft on Thursday said it has acquired privately held Stratature, a company that specialises in so-called master data management software.
IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
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Despite strong growth in software sales at IBM, only certain parts of the enterprise software market are set to rebound this year.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Microsoft's fiercest foes--Java software providers--are showing growing admiration for their powerful rival.
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
A market research report on database sales last year found that Oracle has the most market share and that revenue from databases overall grew slightly last year.
At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says hed like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.
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).
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Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
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