The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of US$26 a share -- double the original forecasts.
One of PeopleSoft's flagship Asia Pacific clients, Air New Zealand, today revealed it is unfazed by aggressive wrangling between the enterprise software developer and competitor Oracle.
IT directors and chief information officers give their verdicts on 10 of the biggest IT vendors.
A recent study shows that despite a perceived lack of vendor ethics, many companies remain vendor-loyal. perhaps we have become too complacent with our vendor choices.
When a vendor collects royalties on Internet protocols, everyone pays: consumers, IT managers, technology providers, even developing nations. Is it fair?
How many vendors do you usually evaluate when trying to determine the best solution for a contract? Ten? Twenty? How about 100?
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
What does Defence CIO Greg Farr have to do to get a 21-gun salute? What does Russell Crowe and lobbying have in common? And can NSW be the next Silicon Valley? All these questions are answered in this week's instalment of Patch Monday.
Oracle and SAP customers will soon have to negotiate new licensing models with changes to both vendors' plans on the way.
Salesforce.com CRM continues to attract converts, but has the competition caught up?
In Java, you can test the physical database connection using vendor-specific APIs or a test-fail query approach. Learn which method is best for you.
A recent study shows that despite a perceived lack of vendor ethics, many companies remain vendor-loyal. perhaps we have become too complacent with our vendor choices.
Laurence Cole, managing director of BEA Australia and New Zealand, talks to ZDNet Australia about the challenges of maintaining growth in a difficult market.
In the heady days of January 2008, database maker Oracle had finally captured the prize that it had been courting for many months, BEA, and in an instant became the largest middleware player in the market. But are the real results yet to appear?
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
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.
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).
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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