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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 »

Red Hat targets server messaging market

Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors. Read more »

Hyperic launches open source management project

The company is applying the open source model to the enterprise management software business Read more »

IBM snaps up stake in open source database firm

IBM has taken a minority stake in EnterpriseDB, an open source database that competes with Oracle and MySQL. 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 »

IBM goes on mainframe offensive

IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes. 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 »

'LAMP' start-up warms to free DB2

Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM's newly introduced free DB2 database. Read more »

Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL

Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy. Read more »

ACS: Tech disasters scare government buyers

IT disasters have frightened government purchasers into only dealing with big guns such as EDS and IBM when it comes to awarding contracts, said the nation's peak ICT body as it proposed a raft of initiatives to boost local innovation. Read more »

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Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. 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 »

IBM to Sun: free Java

Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard. Read more »

The beginning of the end of Java as we know it?

Though the two companies appear to be cooperating more, especially in the area of Web services, the desires of IBM and Microsoft to vanquish one another should not be underestimated. Read more »

Legacy apps and .NET

Maximise your investments by using legacy apps in conjunction with the .NET Framework. Use Host Integration Server to integrate your old apps with .NET to save money. Read more »

Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit

Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, speaks about the impact web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging. Read more »

Top five problems in IT business: Rational VP

We talked to Hayden Lindsay, IBM Rational's vice president of enterprise tools and compilers about enterprise modernisation. He identified five key factors that are inhibiting business responsiveness. Read more »

Building the Linux business infrastructure

IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »

Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »

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