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BEA to take on Asia thanks to Oracle
Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts. Read more »
Questions remain after Oracle's BEA takeover
Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems was a logical move by the software giant but it remains unclear exactly what it will mean for users in terms of product roadmap and transition licensing. Read more »
BEA rejects US$6.66bn bid from Oracle
Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low. Read more »
IBM beefs up Rational toolset
IBM's Rational division yesterday announced new features that will appear in its next generation toolset, code-named Atlantic. Read more »
Sun reluctant to make Java open source
The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Read more »
Web services: Beyond the hype
He still has a tough sell ahead but IBM's Bob Sutor has already collaborated with Microsoft and others to fashion the underlying plumbing necessary to turn his vision of Web services into reality. Read more »
Cisco makes news with big partners
Cisco Systems, known for its aggressive acquisition strategy, is pushing forward with its partnership program as it announces the completion of a security platform with Microsoft and a new marketing partnership with business software company SAP. 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 »
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 »
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The open source revolution
How will governments and large enterprises get their heads around the concept of open source software? 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 »
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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This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. 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.