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IBM Gets Ready to Google-ize the Enterprise

Big Blue is on a content management roll, announcing Friday that none less than the U.S. Army has plugged into its DB2 Content Management...

The War Against Retail Return Abuses

With the holiday season comes fruitcake, traffic jams and an anticipated onslaught of must-be-returned gifts from well-meaning (and possibly colorblind) friends and relatives. But sprinkled...

Warning to Oracle: Customers Are Calling the Shots

Larry Ellison has been called many things, some of them not repeatable here. But this year hes being called something new: Hes The Grinch...

Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative

Oracle Corp. is using the same "tie together cheap boxes" mindset that it cooked up for its Database 10g push, but this time, its...

Autodesk, Microsoft Ink Cross-Licensing Deal

Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies access to a broad range of one anothers patent...

MySQL Lures Open-Source Newbies with Consulting Deals

MySQL AB is offering consulting packages and GUI tools for those who want to jump into open-source technology but lack in-house gurus and are...

Oracle Paid Real Money to Land PeopleSoft

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." Thats one of the better known bon mots from the...

IBM to Provide NYSE with Extreme Availability Processing

IBM and the New York Stock Exchange announced this week that they are collaborating on a new order management and messaging system in support...

Cognos, Actuate Tackle Data Management

Cognos Inc. and Actuate Corp. both announced new products Monday that take different paths to solving data management problems central to meeting regulatory compliance...

Oracle, PeopleSoft Already Talking on Transition

Oracle Corp. hopes to close its buyout of PeopleSoft Inc. within two weeks and have a new management organization in place for the combined...