Equity firm to buy Epicor for $2 billion
The pending acquisitions will create one of the largest ERP software vendors
Salesforce.com buying social media tracker
Salesforce.com will pay more than $300 million for the company
SAP takes on IBM, Oracle with new GRC suite
SAP is launching GRC 10.0, its biggest compliance software release in three years
Teradata buys Aster Data, boosts ‘big data’ wares
Teradata, which already owned 11 per cent of Aster, will pay US$263 million for the remainder
SAP challenging US$1.3B jury award in Oracle trial
SAP wants the award lowered, and also asked for a new trial
New community marketplace seeks cloud developers
Appirio is taking a page from TopCoder with CloudSpokes, a competitive marketplace for cloud developers
SAP, Microsoft try again with Duet Enterprise
Will SAP and Microsoft’s integration software succeed this time?
SAP buying security software, other assets from Secude
SAP is scooping up identity management capabilities from its partner
Oracle aims new BI app at SAP customers
Oracle hopes to steal away business with new SAP financials business intelligence package
Software industry New Year’s resolutions
Vendors, integrators, developers and end-users could all use a little change
Dell in talks to buy storage vendor Compellent
Dell gives no assurances the roughly $900 million deal will be completedrnrn
Salesforce.com unveils Database.com
The on-demand database service will be available next year
Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool
Jitterbit is rolling out CloudReplicate, which can mirror Salesforce.com data to Amazon’s cloud servicernrn
Updated: Novell acquired by Attachmate in US$2.2 billion deal
Novell also selling certain intellectual property assets to Microsoft-led CPTN Holdings
SAP: Larry Ellison is wrong about HP CEO Apotheker
SAP says Larry Ellison’s broadside about the former SAP CEO contains a crucial error