Oracle Gobbles Up Primavera

The company that just loves to buy snapped up a maker of project-management software this week.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20080 comments


Symantec Grabs MessageLabs

This looks primarily like a European play (or Europlay, we suppose) for Symantec. The purchase price came out to $695 million, or approximately 35 Euros plus change. (Just kidding -- we hope.)

Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20081 comments


BroadSoft Teams with Redmond on Hosted UC

Whatever UC actually is , everybody wants to be a part of it. And everybody, especially Microsoft, wants to offer Software as a Service, too. Microsoft and a company called BroadSoft teamed up this week to combine the two hottest areas (along with virtualization, but that's another topic altogether) in technology, announcing a More

Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20080 comments


Ballmer on 'Vista Capable' Suit: I Know Nothing!

One of the more entertaining scenarios in the recent history of Microsoft, the infamous Vista Capable lawsuit , has led to a semi-comical deposition from Steve Ballmer, who pretty much denies More

Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20080 comments


Six More Months for XP

It's the story that never goes away -- although lots of people wish the operating system would. Vista is back in the news, or, more specifically, XP is back. The beloved operating system got another stay of execution this week, as Microsoft essentially announced that it would allow OEMs to "downgrade" users to XP for six months longer than planned. More

Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20081 comments


AMD Spins Off Manufacturing

AMD won't be fab -- or, more precisely, have fabs -- much longer.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20081 comments


Microsoft Builds BI into SQL Server

This just makes a lot of sense if you think about it, or even if you don't. Why let a bunch of other vendors make a bundle on business intelligence applications that are mainly centered on your database when you can build the stuff in yourself ?

Posted by Lee Pender on October 08, 20080 comments


Redmond Warning to Software Pirates

OK, we get the point here. Microsoft is saying that using pirated software could lead to huge problems -- of the technical, and not just legal, kind.

But the deck of this story made us chuckle a little bit: "Company-sponsored report says counterfeits lead to system failures, lost data." Wait, doesn't using a legitimate copy of Windows lead to that stuff?

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Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments


Hyper-V Server 2008 Released

The launch was kind of, sort of last month, but the product's out there today. Go figure. Anyway, here's the press release.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments


Microsoft's Cloudy Future

It's so hard letting go. All the money, all the memories, all the good times -- it's hard to think of them as things of the past. Just look at Microsoft. Cloud computing is here, and the old operating system and productivity suite are becoming less and less relevant all the time. But Microsoft just can't let them go.

OK, most of that last sentence was a massive overstatement -- but we got your attention, right? We know that Windows isn't going to be obsolete any time soon, if ever. And Office is likely to be the suite of choice for the masses for at least a few more years to come.

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Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20080 comments


Kalido Brings BI to the Mid-Market Masses

Somewhere between helping companies more easily retrieve long-buried data and seeing its vendors get snapped up by tech giants, business intelligence (BI) technology got expensive...and complicated. Kalido and its partners are out to take BI back, in part by moving it online.

"It's been very difficult for companies to get enterprise-wide adoption of BI tools because the infrastructure required to support them is very heavy," said Bill Hewitt, Kalido president and CEO, in a phone chat with RCPU this week. Hewitt was referring specifically to business intelligence applications from Business Objects and Cognos, the two main market players, which were recently snapped up by software titans SAP and IBM, respectively.

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Posted by Lee Pender on October 01, 20081 comments


IS Decisions Releases WinReporter 4.0

What we like about this company is...well, it's based in Biarritz. That's the Biarritz, as in the seaside resort in the southwest of France. Mmm, Biarritz. Anyway, here's the PDF of the press release.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 01, 20080 comments