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.
A new report from Yankee Group indicates that, despite Microsoft's earnest efforts to make Windows Vista a hassle-free system that offers airtight security, the software maker still has some work to do before Vista is ready for prime time.
A Ukrainian man extradited to the United States from Thailand on software piracy charges has been sentenced to 35 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned of a "critical" security flaw in its Windows operating system and another in its business Exchange software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer.
The Philippines has the potential to be a major exporter of software and information technology (IT) services but it must first address the problems of manpower shortage, and perceptions of an unstable environment, industry leaders said.
While many businesses are embracing blades and other low-cost servers to handle their information workloads, IBM believes that the tried-and-true mainframe still can play an important role in the enterprise. Big Blue is rolling out new software and tools for creating Web services applications for such machines.
Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of thousands of stolen identities from 125 countries that they believe were collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is calling Trojan-Phisher-Rebery.
Microsoft's new Vista operating system has put the European Commission in a quandry on whether to open a new front against the software giant before a court clarifies the EU antitrust watchdog's authority.
Open source software is being used much more widely than many thought, a survey of 320 companies finds. Ventana Research's survey finds 83% of the companies are considering, deploying, or have implemented open source business intelligence. Just 4% wouldn't consider it. Open source vendors have been steadily moving into new business segments such as BI and content management.
Company argues that mainframes and the legacy software that runs on them will find second careers as SOA hubs.
While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.
