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Sun to acquire MySQL for US$1bn

Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open-source database developer MySQL for US$1bn. Read more »

Sun: MySQL buy 'most important in software history'

The company says its acquisition of open-source database provider MySQL will enable it to dominate in open-source server software. Read more »

Oracle to acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player. Read more »

Borland buys into project management

Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland's line of software development tools. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be announced Monday, were not disclosed. Read more »

Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server

Microsoft wants SQL Server to scale new heights, and it is hoping an add-on code-named Kilimanjaro will help. 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 »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Microsoft wants to help reduce medical mistakes

By standardising on a common way to display medical data, Microsoft hopes to reduce the 600,000 errors that take place in US hospitals each year, many of them from medication mix-ups. 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 »

IBM to make Java database open source

Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialised Java database, CNET News.com has learned. Read more »

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Is it kill or cure for Oracle's database buy?

Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives. Read more »

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss is one step toward what many consider inevitable: the creation of open source companies that rival the clout of entrenched software-providers. Read more »

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 »

Road test: .NET development without Visual Studio

This month we put five IDE alternatives to Microsoft's Visual Studio against each other. Is there an alternative for .NET developers? David McAmis puts the candidates to the test. Read more »

Is this the Active Directory that you've been waiting for?

Columnist Tim Landgraves explains why enhanced management tools and a more flexible deployment make the .NET Server worthy of tech leaders' consideration. 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 »

Deliver RSS content with JSP and JavaScript

You can generate RSS feeds for your JSP-based web site easily. We'll show you how. Read more »

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Service Pack or Market Attack?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- I will give it to Microsoft. When they want to capture a particular market, they go hard or not at all. And with SQL Server 2005, they have their sights set firmly on the Business Intelligence market. And their strategy makes sense—they are moving to become the "one stop shop" for database servers, data management tools, reporting and analysis, eliminating the need to spend more money on third-party tools. Read more »

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