Clint Boulton

In a move to bolster its content management portfolio of services, IBM has purchased Green Pastures Software, a specialist in enterprise content management tools. The privately-held firm, which is based in Oregon, provides document management software that helps businesses collaborate, edit and manage multiple documents online and in real-time. Such documents include spreadsheets, multimedia files […]

Code quality in a version of the MySQL open-source database was found to be six times superior to that of comparable proprietary code, according to a recent study of open-source software products by tech development firm Reasoning. The results of the study come at a time when fierce debate rages as to whether open-source software, […]

Oracle said growth in license revenues helped it bring in a profit of $617 million, for its second fiscal quarter, up 15 percent over the same time last year. The results were helped in part by the weaker dollar, which has been a boost to other global technology players in exchange rates overseas. But overall, […]

Storage systems giant EMC Monday inked an agreement to buy privately-held VMware for $635 million in cash. The Palo Alto, Calif. outfit’s assets should help EMC’s strategy to help customers lower costs and streamline operations by deploying virtualization technologies, which create one pool of storage and computing resources across their fragmented IT infrastructure. VMware’s software […]

BMC Software Monday agreed to acquire the assets of Magic Solutions from security software provider Network Associates for about $47 million in cash to boost its offerings for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). BMC, who competes with IBM, Computer Associates and Microsoft, inked the deal to bring its already strong IT management software stack to […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America (FCPA) Monday announced its latest hard drive interface that runs at 3 gigabytes per second. The division of Japan’s Fujitsu that makes data storage drives and computer peripherals said the new technology is currently being tested by Hewlett Packard . Small form factor serial-attached SCSI drives are the next generation […]

Actuate Monday rounded out its business intelligence platform with the introduction of Actuate Analytics, software it claims will give “power” users access to data beyond Web reports and spreadsheets. Business intelligence platforms help companies make better informed decisions about their processes, products and employees through detailed reports and analyses. The software usually offers highly interactive […]

Business intelligence software company Business Objects closed its purchase of fellow software maker Crystal Decisions Thursday for $1.2 billion, a deal that effectively makes the France-based concern the largest supplier of the decision-assisting products. The transaction, initially believed to be worth $820 million when it was announced in July, was approved by Business Objects shareholders […]

IBM Friday unveiled grid and autonomic computing services that combine business consulting knowledge with research and technology to help customers get the edge on their competitors by saving themselves time and resources. Once a concept trapped in the computer science realm, grid computing — the idea of drawing computing power from many IT resources and […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. — IBM is fusing its own development tools with those it acquired in its Rational Software purchase and calling it the IBM Software Development Platform. Speaking at a media event here Wednesday, IBM Rational General Manager Mike Devlin said IBM’s development tool suite, WebSphere Studio, will now fall under the aegis of Rational, […]

MicroStrategy has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Crystal Decisions, a rival in the business intelligence software arena that was successfully acquired for $1.2 billion by Business Objects Thursday. MicroStrategy competes with Business Objects and Palo Alto, Calif.’s Crystal in the lucrative sector of software that makes determinations about customers, employees and business processes to […]

The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization has released sample application released sample application guidelines and implementations that model a Web services supply chain management (SCM) scenario. Leveraging the features of the Basic Profile 1.0, the documents by the open standards industry group suggest a supply chain management scenario that employs Web services interoperability with different […]