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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 »

SAP to acquire Business Objects for $7bn

SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than US$6.8 billion. Read more »

SAP puts focus on Business Objects

SAP has no plans to join Oracle and get involved in the megamerger game. Read more »

SAP tries to lure small firms from Oracle

Business applications maker SAP said Wednesday it has created another so-called safe-passage program designed to lure customers away from rival Oracle -- this time aiming it at small and midsize businesses. Read more »

SAP muddies the water with PeopleSoft support buy

SAP has purchased TomorrowNow, a software company that provides support services for products sold by the former PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards. Read more »

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SAP keeps door open to large enterprises

SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde. Read more »

Oracle finds SAP a tough nut to crack

Oracle Australia kicked off a major marketing exercise this week to woo customers from rival SAP but less than 30 organisations responded. Read more »

Red Hat launches open-source Exchange

Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange, a site where customers can buy a range of open-source applications from the company's business partners. Read more »

TaaS trend will mean cheaper tech for enterprises

Gartner analysts predict that technology as a service (TaaS) will play a major role in future procurement, with its pay by use model set to cut user upfront costs and reduce vendor margins. Read more »

Open source take-up booming in APAC

Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey. Read more »

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WSDL for your B2B back-end application?

You may have an ideal prospect for a WSDL app. But you need to answer several questions before launching the project. Here's how to get started. Read more »

Is it kill or cure for Oracle's database buy?

Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives. Read more »

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In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »

Service Pack or Market Attack?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- I will give it to Microsoft. When they want to capture a particular market, they go hard or not at all. And with SQL Server 2005, they have their sights set firmly on the Business Intelligence market. And their strategy makes sense—they are moving to become the "one stop shop" for database servers, data management tools, reporting and analysis, eliminating the need to spend more money on third-party tools. Read more »

While the big guys scrap at the big end, who's creating the little guy's computer heaven?

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- Having sampled Google’s new calendar, I, for one, can’t wait until full synchronisation between it and Outlook’s calendar is full and fluent, so I can dispose of another chain to my desk. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. 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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