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SAP CEO: Microsoft should have bought Yahoo
If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice, he would be told to spend his money on Yahoo. 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 »
Siebel and Ellison: Software's odd couple
Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems. 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 »
MySQL plug-ins to be closed-source
MySQL's move to begin offering parts of its namesake database as closed source only will apply only to plug-ins — such as encryption and compression — according to co-founder David Axmark. Read more »
Will Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo backfire?
Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google. Read more »
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community. Read more »
MySQL gives Sun a foot in the door
Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software. Read more »
Citrix to pay a real US$500m for XenSource
Citrix has made an unexpected move into the virtualisation market with its intended US$500 million acquisition of XenSource. 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 »
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Google vs. Microsoft
At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. 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 »
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 »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. 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.