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 US computer hacker was jailed for nearly five years for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers, and infecting them with malicious software.
Microsoft and SAP made good last week on a long-standing promise with"Duet,"an integration of Microsoft's ubiquitous Office productivity suite and SAP's software.
SOA pure-plays going like iPods as hunger for complete solutions drives fourth acquisition in seven months
Aberro on Monday is rolling out an upgrade to its AberroTest tool, which automates the testing of Windows and Web applications without requiring scripting.
The OpenDocument Foundation says it has a plug-in that will add full support for the OpenDocument Format in Microsoft Office, but the plug-in is not yet publicly available.
Expect UGS Corp.'s product lifecycle management (PLM) software to integrate with Microsoft Office 2007 when Microsoft Corp. begins shipping the product in the fall.
Two of the trio affect Windows, while the third will resolve one or more issues in the Microsoft Exchange mail server software.
Taking advantage of increased worries about Mac OS X vulnerabilities, McAfee Thursday launched an anti-virus product for Intel-based Macs.
Expect to continue suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous security holes as a result of Microsoft's fateful decision to tie IE deeply into the operating system itself. Is it still worth using?
The number of security issues reported in relation to Apple's Mac platform has grown substantially over the last three years, according to experts at McAfee.
