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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 »
How do you get bought out by Google?
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions. Read more »
IBM to buy tools company Telelogic
IBM will spend US$745 million to buy software-development tools company Telelogic, Big Blue said on Monday. Read more »
Microsoft makes Yahoo a new offer
Microsoft announced on Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with the company but would not involve the acquisition of all of its assets. Read more »
Jerry Yang's memo to Yahoo staff
This is the text of the e-mail Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang sent to his company's staff on Saturday after Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire the Internet pioneer. Read more »
IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion
IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction. Read more »
AU$315m Mincom buyout on the cards
Mincom may soon have a new owner, with private equity fund Francisco Partners looking to buy the Queensland-based software development and services outfit for AU$315 million in cash. Read more »
Why IBM passed on JBoss
IBM's software chief has shed some light on why his firm passed on Oracle's latest acquistion target. Read more »
Oracle shuffles out two top execs
Oracle has replaced two top executives who oversee its applications and customer support efforts, as the software company nears the finish line in its US$10.3 billion megamerger with former rival PeopleSoft. Read more »
Nokia to acquire Linux firm Trolltech
Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications including Google Earth and Skype. Read more »
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The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history
While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »
Top 14 development integration trends for 2004
Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »
IBM gets Rational with open source
Big Blue's tools division is expected to detail its plans for using software from the open source project Eclipse to make its products better integrated and to accelerate development. Read more »
It's 9:00am: Do you know where your people are?
Today's workforce is located everywhere. This geographic dispersion of workers presents some interesting management challenges-especially for the IT manager. Read more »
Taking developers into the interface
In the second half of our interview with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, we discuss JavaFX phones, Sun's view of Google and Adobe, Swing's appearance and just how much of a bubble the industry is in. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
The pros and cons of paying for staff certification
Are you thinking about bankrolling staff certifications? Find out how to decide when it makes sense--and when it doesn't--to spend precious dollars on certifying your people. Read more »
Use application architecture to reduce redundancy
A reader expresses his frustration after discovering that an application he is working on has already been developed in another sector of his company. Tom Mochal offers keys to avoiding redundancy. Read more »
The seven deadly sins of integration
Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.