Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
The move comes shortly after VMWare’s announced plans to buy Xsigo competitor Nicera
SAP to detail five-pillar analytics strategy
The new marketing push comes alongside the arrival of a new feature pack for SAP’s BusinessObjects software
Salesforce.com hit with outage
The software-as-a-service vendor is blaming a storage issue for the problem
Red Hat CEO outlines new strategy
The open-source vendor’s top executive sat down for an interview during the Red Hat Summit in Boston this week
Gartner downgrades enterprise application revenue forecast
Sales in 2012 will be $120.4 billion, the analyst firm predicts
Oracle-SAP retrial delayed
Proceedings won’t start for at least several more months
Oracle buys Collective Intellect for ‘social intelligence’ tools
The move is just the latest instance of the rivalry between Oracle and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media
The move follows Oracle’s recent purchase of Buddy Media competitor Vitrue
Quickbooks has an online outage
Intuit says it has restored all customers, but angry sentiments linger
SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion
The move expands SAP’s presence in cloud software
SAP rolls out new mobile apps
nalyst: SAP’s mobile strategy makes plenty of room for partners
Users: Oracle Exadata’s speed comes at a price
Exadata delivers the processing speed Oracle has touted, but at high expense and with sizable technical requirements, users say
Citrix buys Podio for social collaboration, project management software
The move rounds out Citrix’s line of GoTo cloud services
SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile
The HANA in-memory platform will be bolstered by Sybase’s array of database technologies
Oracle’s Mark Hurd spells out analytics vision
Oracle is staking a big claim in business analytics, from software to hardware appliances