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Man, what a wacky world software has become. Remember when $6.6 billion meant something? It's play money at this point. Who wins and who loses if Oracle gets BEA? Oracle: Probably Oracle has never had a clear story about app servers and despite
Wow, never a dull moment in the software industry... Oracle has long been rumored to acquire BEA and now they've made a formal offer. I've heard some sources that Oracle's previous attempts to acquire BEA were rebuffed and for a while
Via Roy Russo's heads up: Oracle, in letter to BEA Systems' board, offers cash at a 25% premium; says it seeks friendly acquisition. From TSS via CNN: "We believe our all cash offer provides the best value for BEA's shareholders a
A couple of weeks ago Hyperic announced their cooperation with JasperSoft to add advanced reporting to their open source systems management tool. Hyperic is interesting because it enables IT managers to get first-class monitoring of LAMP and other in
Net/Net: The patent application for "outsourcing of services" was filed 8 months before a new IBM policy to reduce business method patents. This one slipped through the cracks of the "new policy". Our bad. Via Bob Sutor's blo
New Microsoft lab will encourage testing across diverse areas including interoperability between Windows and Linux platforms
Version 1.6 makes Pentaho Open BI Suite a more viable option for corporate users by adding ad hoc querying and reporting
The framework for the next generation of Java Web applications
After experimenting with the idea of a mobile browser, Mozilla has hired developers to work on the project and plans to release Mobile Firefox within the next year or two
I ran into this piece of PR from IBM today. "Initially developed to power the Apollo space program, IMS is recognized as the industry's first modern database and transaction management software. Over the past three decades, the reliability,