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• IBM fires back at Oracle in middleware fray

  IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware.

• NetSuite, Informatica team up on two-tier ERP

  NetSuite and Informatica announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to exploit the concept of "two-tier ERP" (enterprise resource planning) deployments.

• Wall Street Beat: Business software, e-commerce shine

  With most tech bellwethers having reported financial results, the earnings season is coming to a close, but BMC, NetSuite, AOL and IAC results this week offered insights into aspects of business IT and the Internet sector.

• Forrester: Oracle confining Java future to enterprise use

  Oracle is limiting the development of Java by focusing the future development of the language on enterprise use, to the detriment of a wider, more diverse Java community, charged a pair of analysts at Forrester Research.

• Tomcat 7 finalised

  The volunteer developers behind Apache Tomcat have released version 7.0.6 of the open-source Java servlet container.

• New Mule refines cloud deployments

  Further tweaking its software for cloud deployments, MuleSoft has updated its Mule enterprise service bus (ESB) with a wider range of tools to support use in hosted environments.

• Apache to steward NASA built middleware

  The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed by the NASA U.S. government space agency.

• Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce

  Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.

• Informatica debuts pay-as-you-go data integration service

  Hoping to pique the interest of the cloud-curious enterprise, data-integration software provider Informatica has unveiled a low-cost, cloud-based data integration service, called Informatica Cloud Express.

• Red Hat acquires Makara

  Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat has acquired cloud software provider Makara, Red Hat announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Oracle praised for switch on VMware RAC support

  Oracle has reportedly changed its position on support for its RAC (Real Application Clusters) software running in VMware virtualized environments, saying it will provide it under certain circumstances.

• Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

  Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

• Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

  Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.

• VMware angles Spring as premier Java development tool

  Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers.

• Twitter solves its data formatting challenge

  Eschewing popular choices such as XML, CSV and JSON, Twitter has opted to format the back-end storage of its user and systems data with a relatively unknown format pioneered by Google, called Protocol Buffers.