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IBM doubles down on software services

News Big Blue initiative aims to breath new life into the notion of software as a service.

Friday, January 28 2005 09:34 AM

Tags: Business applications

Oracle eyes industry-based structure, new pricing

News Through acquisitions, the software heavyweight will organize its sales around specific industries and price software on "business metrics."

Monday, July 25 2005 11:58 AM

Tags: Business applications, Business development/management, Acquisitions

Newly-merged Lawson takes on ERP giants

News The combined entity of Lawson and Intentia will leverage on its newfound synergies in the enterprise resource planning market.

Wednesday, May 10 2006 06:53 PM

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Mergers

Microsoft mobilizes on wireless video

News The company teams up with digital-media specialists to launch MobileVision, a system for delivering streaming video to portable devices.

Friday, March 12 2004 09:53 AM

Tags: Video

Oracle expands midmarket ambitions

News  Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.

Monday, August 16 2004 10:51 AM

Tags: Business applications

Industry veterans bet on open-source model

News Ex-Microsoft exec gets behind a start-up that aims to become the Dell of the software industry.

Wednesday, September 29 2004 10:12 AM

Tags: Open source

IBM signs desktop software partners

News  Big Blue cuts deals with 100 software companies to use its Workplace desktop software as part of their own applications.

Wednesday, November 24 2004 10:05 AM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Software

IBM looks to spread Linux with 'Chiphopper'

News Hopes new tools for creating Linux applications on multiple processors will help spur sales of its hardware.

Tuesday, February 15 2005 09:22 AM

Tags: Linux

NetSuite revamps hosted tools

News Latest version of hosted business software claims new dashboards, increased customization and tighter links to Microsoft Office.

Friday, August 05 2005 10:44 AM

Tags: Microsoft Office, Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Microsoft pretties Office for business apps

News Microsoft plans to release software geared to help third parties integrate Outlook, other Office components.

Tuesday, June 13 2006 09:16 AM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Software integration, Business applications

Details on Intel's beta Mac development tools

News Intel has released betas of its software development tools for Mac OS X running on the Intel architecture.

Thursday, January 19 2006 11:19 AM

Tags: Processors, Mac OS, Software engineering/development

Oracle secures identity management

News Oracle's database and application server management products will improve management of access privileges.

Friday, October 17 2003 09:15 AM

Microsoft comments on Vista SP1 kernel reports

News Vista APIs have been extended to 'patch' the kernel and aid 64-bit application development, the company has claimed.

Thursday, February 07 2008 11:30 AM

Tags: Windows Vista

Change of heart in Office spat

News In a high-stakes conflict over document formats, some ODF backers are abandoning the standard in favor of a W3C alternative.

Tuesday, October 30 2007 10:37 AM

Tags: Software

Microsoft takes Silverlight beyond Windows

News The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac.

Tuesday, May 01 2007 07:08 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Protocols and platforms, Business applications