Chris Kanaracus

Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand users get six months free to switch

The new version of the company

Oracle has provided new details about its plans for certain key Sun Microsystems technologies, including the GlassFish application server and the NetBeans application development toolkit....

The long-promised software will combine the best attributes of Oracle's various product lines and be "SaaS ready," its CEO tells the OpenWorld conference this weekrn

The new offering integrates Salesforce.com

IBM aims its US$3 a month LotusLive iNotes at on-premise e-mail and SaaS markets dominated by Google and Microsoft...

FinancialForce.com will be a step up from Excel or Quicken, for customers looking for a tighter CRM integration. Other potential targets are companies who are standardized on an ERP system but might consider SaaS financials for a new division...

While the U.S. Department of Justice has given its OK on the US$7.4 billion deal, the Oracle-Sun union still needs the blessing of European regulators...