Startup pushes virtual labs as a service
Seattle startup Skytap is set to debut virtual labs-as-a-service software that will let development teams create multiple test machines in various configurations without tying up much hardware.
Stories by Chris Kanaracus
IBM to buy FilesX for data protection software
IBM has signed an agreement to buy FilesX, a storage software company in Haifa, Israel, and Newton, Massachusetts, it announced Thursday. Terms of the deal, which IBM said will close shortly, were not disclosed.
Gartner: Enterprise search pervasive by 2012
Enterprise search is set to become a pervasive and demanding force in IT over the next several years, according to Gartner analyst Whit Andrews.
SAP loses bid to keep 'highly confidential' info from Oracle
A court-appointed official in California has shot down SAP's request that Oracle's general counsel be denied access to "highly confidential" information related to Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against SAP and its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, rejecting SAP's contention that sensitive and strategic information could find its way into the hands of Oracle's top executives.
Gartner: Multicore, clouds, social nets top disruptive list
Multicore processors, cloud computing, user interfaces, social networks/social software and Web mashups top a list of 10 "disruptive technologies'' set to reshape the IT landscape between 2008 and 2012, according to Gartner analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch.
Gartner: Global IT spending growth stable
A Gartner study finds that IT spending has so far been largely unaffected, despite the ongoing signs of weakness in the US and global economies.
Linux kernel community grows, but elite group remains
While Linus Torvalds' name is synonymous with the Linux kernel, Al Viro's may be one day, too.
Report: Number of GPL v3 projects tops 2,000
The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source code within a customer's code base.
Oracle buying Web app test tools from Empirix
Fresh off a strong third-quarter earnings report, Oracle announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire a set of Web application testing products from Empirix for an undisclosed sum.
Service aims to mine social networks for consumer insight
The market is ripe for services like that of Networked Insights, which mines data in social networks and discovers how companies' brands are being talked about by those sites' users and visitors, according to the company's CEO and founder Daniel Neely.
Acquisitions, overseas sales boost Oracle earnings
Oracle said Wednesday that its third-quarter revenues were up 21 percent to US$5.3 billion compared to the same quarter last year, defying the widespread malaise in the U.S. economy.
ODF editor: ODF loses if OOXML does
The editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer.
JasperSoft claims to be most widely-deployed BI tool
JasperSoft, the open-source business intelligence vendor, is claiming that it is now the world's most widely deployed BI product.
BMC to buy BladeLogic for $US800 million
BMC Software said Monday that it intends to purchase BladeLogic, a maker of data center automation software, for US$28 per share in cash, or about $US800 million.
SAS buys natural language processing vendor Teragram
SAS has purchased Teragram, a natural language processing (NLP) software vendor, in a bid to boost its existing technologies for text mining and business intelligence, the company announced Monday.