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Oracle looks to broaden appeal of new data grid software

Oracle Corp. has brought out the first version of the Coherence in-memory data grid software since acquiring Tangosol earlier this year and over time hopes to dramatically widen the appeal of the product.

IBM extends support for Sun’s Solaris

Big Blue will distribute the operating system for some of its System x and BladeCenter server products. Jonathan Schwartz discusses how it affects his relationship with HP

Citrix to acquire XenSource for US$500 million

The application delivery software vendor enters both the server and desktop virtualization markets by buying the open source alternative to VMware. Executives discuss how the two will fit

IBM, Novell strengthen desktop, server ties

Big Blue builds upon its acquisition of Gluecode by gaining increased support for its Notes and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition on Suse Linux. Find out how they plan to lure JBoss customers

Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to acquire a 1.6 per cent equity stake in virtualization software player VMware Inc., mirroring a step Intel Corp. took last month.

SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’

Popular open-source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the equivalent of the open-source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony.

HP acquires Opsware for US$1.6 billion

A company best known for products and services around provisioning, configuration and deployment will help HP assists customers with their data centre pain points

NetSuite makes its apps available via iPhone

NetSuite Inc.'s users can start accessing the company's hosted midmarket applications suite via their iPhones as businesses start to investigate the possibilities of using the much hyped Apple Inc. mobile device at work.

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