The CIO of local financial services company Asteron has signalled his group is ready for the extensive technology integration work due to commence shortly as Suncorp swallows Asteron's parent Promina.
Oracle plans to spend US$220 million in cash to buy Portal Software, filling out its applications line with software geared to the communications and media industry.
Financial services company Aviva Australia has revealed it is in the midst of an extensive back office technology consolidation project, with Oracle software taking centre stage as a number of other platforms are eliminated.
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.
Oracle, in a surprise move, announced on early today that it would forego calling PeopleSoft's chief executive, Craig Conway, to the witness stand in the ongoing federal antitrust trial.
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.
U.S. Department of Justice officials announced on Thursday that they will challenge Oracle's hostile US$9.4 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft, dealing a major blow to the controversial deal.
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.
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Trying to master customer relationship management (CRM) suites these days is somewhat akin to attempting to eat not-quite-solid Jell-O with a fork. In trying to do everything, some CRM packages wind up doing nothing. ZDNet evaluates three CRM vendors.
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National Australia Bank this morning said it was in discussions to buy the local arm of Dutch investment bank ABN AMRO, in a move that could enlarge NAB's IT support operation, already one of the largest in Australia.
Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors.
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