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2005: The Year We Hog-Tie Data

One good bet for a 2005 prediction: Companies are going to get scared into buying something—anything—to help them get a handle on information management.We...

Oracle Takes Control of PeopleSoft

Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of...

PeopleSoft CEO Duffield Resigns

PeopleSoft Inc. founder David Duffield, who replaced fired CEO Craig Conway in October, quietly resigned effective Dec. 21, less than two weeks before Oracle...

Sybase Aims to Query Mainframes Faster, Cheaper

Sybase Inc. and Informatica Corp. have fashioned a one-stop shopping package to help mainframe customers who are looking to squeeze real-time data out of...

PeopleSoft Customers Tested

Once the dust settles on Oracle Corp.s acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc., current PeopleSoft customers will be forced to make a decision: wholly embrace the...

How to Negotiate with Oracle Post-Canary Swallowing

When it comes to sales and to negotiating licensing and support, Oracle has always been stocked with tough-as-nails negotiators.The company at times has attempted...

Oracle Reaches Out to JDE Users

Shortly after announcing its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. last week, Oracle Corp. wasted no time in setting out to win the confidence...

Top Products of 2004

Firefox 1.0 Firefox 1.0 In one of the most interesting technology stories of the year, an open-source product descended from one of the founding applications of...

Time for PeopleSoft Customers, Workers to Cut Best Deal

Its time for PeopleSoft customers and employees to start thinking about the future and about protecting their own interests, because nobody else is going...

OpenOffice 2.0 Nears Beta Testing

OpenOffice.org 2.0, the open-source office suite sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc., is getting closer to reality. The latest prebeta edition, OpenOffice.org Snapshot Build 1.9.m65 (680_m65),...