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Oracle offers service oriented architecture suite

The suite integrates both oracle and non oracle applications

CSC signs agreement to resell Microsoft business productivity online suite

Adds Microsoft online services to its cloud services portfolio

Oracle unveils Fusion Middleware 11g

To enhance performance of business applications

KANA releases new SEM offering

Aims to streamline service processes and manage customer service

HP enhances virtualisation offerings

Aims to address the complexities and resource costs associated with data centre deployments

Takeover battle brewing over Borland

Micro Focus outbid by unnamed rival

BT Xeros in on cloud finance app

Aims to cut extra work hours

Software AG unveils new webMethods platform

To provide expanded development and business process management capabilities

Comments & Opinion

Cloud: Pros and cons

Does the business case for cloud computing really stack up? CBR reports.

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

CBR Thought Leaders: IT in a Cold Climate

Is paring IT investment back to the bone the best strategy for surviving the downturn? Dr Richard Williams argues the case against.

Central Station: the rise of the CMDB

Interest in the configuration management database (CMDB) is helping to drive a wave of interest in business service management, or BSM. But is there real value behind the CMDB acronym?

Coghead: collapse raises questions over the viability of the PaaS model

Web-based application development platform provider Coghead has revealed that it is to cease operations due to fundraising issues. Although Coghead's failings are not indicative of the structural flaws in the Platform as a Service model, the provider's collapse will damage customers' perceptions of the model, bringing the issue of vendor lock-in to the fore.

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