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Enterprise software providers struck back at Oracle Monday, calling the database provider’s surprise $5.1 billion cash offer to buy rival enterprise software company PeopleSoft a power play to be resisted. “I believe an Oracle acquisition of PeopleSoft raises such serious antitrust problems that it will face months of investigation by both the United States Department […]

Oracle Monday joined rival vendors such as Borland in introducing new ways to develop applications for Java with Oracle9i JDeveloper Version 9.0.5. The development environment is based on the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company’s new Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework that provides a flexible foundation for designing and creating […]

Borland Software is rolling out a handful of announcements at the JavaOne conference that deal with the increasingly important concept of application lifecycle management (ALM), a market IDC expects to top $2.69 billion in 2007. The Scotts Valley, Calif. business unveiled Borland Enterprise Studio 6, which integrates the various stages in ALM. Borland, along with […]

In a hostile takeover bid that could reverberate across the software industry, database giant Oracle offered to purchase all outstanding shares of enterprise application company PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash. The bid comes just days after PeopleSoft moved to acquire mid-market applications provider J.D. Edwards in a $1.7 billion stock bid. It also follows […]

Technology consultancy Cap Gemini Ernst & Young International B.V. (CGE&Y) Thursday said it has extended its deal with Oracle , agreeing to pair its technology expertise with Oracle’s application server, Oracle9i for customers. The news is a coup for Oracle, which is looking to pry application server market share from market leaders IBM and BEA […]

The Napster fallout continued this week as music label EMI Record Music filed suit against Bertelsmann AG, arguing that the German media conglomerate’s investment in the file-sharing system led to the infringement of EMI’s copyrights. The new legal action marks the third in a series of suits filed by record companies who feel their music […]

America Online Wednesday launched a new channel site for real estate and home improvement, competing with the likes of Amazon an Realtor.com in its quest to find new revenue streams through e-commerce. The news comes at a time when AOL is working to turn around a slide in dial-up subscribers, build its broadband base, and […]

The Business Software Alliance has determined that the worldwide piracy rate for commercial software, which consists of software applications that are written and sold as packages by vendors, actually dropped 10 percent last year. This drop was attributed in part to better awareness, better defined copyright laws, and more specific and severe punishments for perpetrators. […]

As the IT industry pushes to make data retrievable from many devices, using one portal window, it stands to reason that the underlying technology, storage virtualization , is so prized. Virtualization helps enterprises lower their costs because they need fewer storage devices, components and staffers to manage the wealth of data across their networks. But […]

When PeopleSoft moved to acquire rival J.D. Edwards Monday, it marked the latest in a series of mergers between software vendors, but it also jogged the competitive landscape in the market for selling business application software to customers. Analysts said that while the deal presents a significant upside for PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and their customers, […]

Hardware server vendors continue to undercut each other in terms of price while they try to outdo each other in terms of server performance. Sun Microsystems Tuesday became the latest outfit to wage an assault on rivals HP and IBM when it pared prices on its entry-level, Sun Fire V480 and V880 models by as […]

PeopleSoft Monday agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion in stock, a move that shakes up the market for business applications software. The deal makes PeopleSoft the second-largest business software provider to Germany-based leader SAP as PeopleSoft will gain new access to mid-market application customers to add to its large market customer […]