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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Adobe snaps up document security tools

Adobe Systems is adding new document protection mechanisms to its business workflow software with an acquisition announced on Monday. Read more »

IBM looks to "master" unruly data

Eyeing a potentially high-growth area in business software, IBM said Monday that it has dedicated 1,000 employees to software that sews together disparate strands of related information. 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 »

IBM named IT services kingpin

IBM has maintained its role as the IT services kingpin, coming out on top of a league table from analyst Gartner. Read more »

Atlantic launch expands IBM's tools range

A new suite of Eclipse-based tools planned for release by the end of the year promises to make large-scale development easier. Read more »

IBM to pay US$1.6 billion for FileNet

IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US. Read more »

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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 »

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 »

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 »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. 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 »

The open source revolution

How will governments and large enterprises get their heads around the concept of open source software? Read more »

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting Framework

Want to support all the scripting languages for Java? The Bean Scripting Framework, BSF, enables you to do just that with a simple API. We'll show you how in this article. 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 »

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