06:43 20.05.2006
SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, would be open to a merger or a takeover by companies such as IBM, Microsoft or Google, if the price were right, one of SAP's co-founders and biggest shareholders said.
Savvy IT execs are going beyond rote hardware and software consolidations to reduce IT maintenance and operations costs and liberate additional capital for discretionary projects.
Tips for lowering IT maintenance costs.
Software maker Comverse Technology Inc. on Monday said its founder and senior executives had resigned from the company while it was in the midst of an internal probe on its stock option grants.
Devicescape Software, a company that designs embedded software for wireless connectivity, will make a series of announcements this week aimed at extending WLAN capabilities for both business and home users.
Indian share prices closed up 1.61 percent at a new record, led by strong retail buying in index-linked software and automobile stocks in a special session to test software, dealers said.
The stock price fell 11%, a five-year record drop, after Microsoft said earnings would be hurt by increased investments aimed at fending off rivals like Google. Among Microsoft's areas of investment: software services.
SocketShield software blocks known malware sites.
A judge in Microsoft Corp.'s appeal against an antitrust ruling stunned the European Commission by asking for advice on what to do should the court cut Microsoft's $617 million fine.
Bob Bales and Roger Thompson hit it big with their last venture, antispyware company PestPatrol. Now the two have launched a new company. Their target: drive by downloads and zero day exploits, like the recent Windows Meta File (WMF).
Microsoft violated antitrust law to "double lock" a virtual monopoly it holds on PC operating systems, a European Commission lawyer told a court.
