Cognos rebrands Applix technology
Cognos has rebranded the financial performance management software it gained through the acquisition of Applix earlier this year and provided a road map for the product line.
Stories by Chris Kanaracus
NetSuite IPO auction begins
NetSuite on Monday said the auction period for its first initial public offering has begun and that it expects the price will be finalized by the stock market's close on December 19.
Swiss vendor E2E pushes model-driven integration
Swiss vendor E2E on Monday launched the 4.0 version of its E2E Bridge tool, designed to speed up application integration projects by directly executing unified modeling language (UML) diagrams.
HP touts BI services growth, NeoView success
Hewlett-Packard's business intelligence (BI) services business saw its customer base grow 50 percent in fiscal 2007, the company said this week, while also trumpeting the success of its Neoview data warehousing appliance.
Analyst: NetSuite IPO should find success
NetSuite's decision to hold an auction-style initial public offering later this month will probably pay off, one analyst judged on Friday.
SourceForge opens eBay-like marketplace
SourceForge's open-source, project-hosting Web site now has an eBay-like marketplace, where users can offer support services for sale.
Seagate buys e-discovery company
Storage vendor Seagate Technology said Thursday it plans to buy MetaLINCS, an e-discovery software firm. The vendor's move follows Iron Mountain's purchase earlier this year of Stratify, which is also focused on e-discovery.
Salesforce offers data sharing for customers
Salesforce.com is set to announce on Wednesday new features for its on-demand enterprise software designed to let customers share hosted data among themselves.
Sun to dangle prize money over open source efforts
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog.
Cloudsmith service pushes 'virtual distros'
A new company, Cloudsmith, has created a Web-based service meant to let developers access and exchange "virtual distros," or custom configurations, of open-source software.
Silverlight 2.0 to launch early next year
Instead of labeling the next version of its Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in 1.1, Microsoft will call it 2.0, and will release a beta version early next year, according to a corporate blog post Thursday.
Panelists: Content management, meet social networking
Enterprise content management and social networking form a natural nexus that is already taking tangible form, a software executive said during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Gilbane Group's annual conference in Boston.
BMC releases IT analytics software
BMC on Tuesday released ProActiveNet Analytics, the first product stemming from its acquisition of ProActiveNet earlier this year.
GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
The GNOME Foundation, recently slammed by critics who accused it of supporting Microsoft's Open Office XML document format (OOXML), has issued a statement to clarify its position on the matter.
Group pushing for open data portability stack
A new workgroup led by an Australian developer says the social networking-Web 2.0 boom has created a conundrum: How to securely deliver sets of personal data across the ever-growing flock of such applications and Web sites with a minimum of pain and complexity.