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Software AG gobbles up WebMethods

Software AG said it has reached an agreement to acquire enterprise software company WebMethods for US$546 million in cash. Read more »

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 »

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 »

Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems

Oracle withdraws its $6.7 billion buyout bid for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refuses to entertain its $17 a share bid. 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 »

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 »

Oracle plans content management splash

Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year. Read more »

VMware buys virtual-machine management firm

Dunes Technologies' virtual-machine automation tools will become part of VMware's management portfolio. Read more »

Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet

Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »

Oracle-BEA takeover comes to a close

Oracle announced Tuesday it completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems, bringing to a close a contentious buyout effort that began last spring. Read more »

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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 »

50 significant moments from internet history

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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 »

Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople

Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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