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Oracle's eye on the future

As part of its semiannual analysts' day, Oracle on Wednesday outlined a range of plans for the New Year and beyond, from integration of PeopleSoft technology to its planned entry into the market for collaboration software. Read more »

Novell: The future is 'both-source'

Networking and Linux specialist Novell is working hard to convince customers and partners at its annual European user conference that open source and proprietary development can coexist. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Oracle buys open-source database firm

Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL. Read more »

Microsoft and Adobe to square off?

After two decades of successfully steering clear of Microsoft, Adobe Systems is edging closer to the software giant's crosshairs. Read more »

New Oracle brand to wrap up retail buys

Oracle Retail brand name, set for launch at user confab this week, will cover products picked up in acquisitions and existing software. Read more »

Allchin to retire amid MS reorganisation

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping reorganisation of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of longtime Windows development chief Jim Allchin. Read more »

Oracle plans content management splash

Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year. Read more »

Open source: The newest competitive tool

A few years ago, releasing once-secret source code to the public would have been a highly unusual first move for a company with a newly acquired software product line. Read more »

In wake of takeover, Oracle unveils product plans

Ten days after closing its long-sought PeopleSoft acquisition, Oracle on Tuesday unveiled plans for the product lines it will support, a new development road map and several executive shifts. Read more »

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Model-Driven Development today

Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »

IBM lights up mainframe's 40th birthday

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Read more »

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