Outlining Microsoft’s business apps agenda

By Briony Smith March 13, 2008

Steve Ballmer discusses changes to Dynamics-CRM, announces a partnership with EDS and evaluates his competitors

SAP Canada launches new push in the SME space

By Jeff Jedras March 10, 2008

The ERP vendor is aggressively recruiting SME partners, and one Western Canadian partner explains why it has decided to go exclusive with Business One

SAP ships ‘enhancements’ for ERP

By Chris Kanaracus February 25, 2008

Release also includes more than 50 enterprise services bundles designed to address specific business processes

BPM vendor wants to drive half its revenue through partners

By Jeff Jedras February 20, 2008

While the initial focus is on SIs, IDS Scheer’s Americas channel boss would also like to talk to Oracle, SAP and BMC resellers

Top 5 Vendors to Watch: Pillar Data

By Paolo Del Nibletto January 21, 2008

All week CDNNow will profile five vendors our editorial team feels you should be keeping an eye on in 2008. Today, we feature a company emerging from Larry Ellison’s long shadow: Pillar Data

Analyzing Oracle’s US$8.5B BEA acquisition

By Kathleen Lau January 17, 2008

BEA’s best of breed middleware seen as key to success of Oracle’s Fusion suite

BEA finally says yes to Oracle, while Sun opens its wallet for MySQL

By CDN Staff January 16, 2008

The BEA deal goes down after Oracle sweetens its offer by US$1.8 billion

SAP puts Web 2.0 face on CRM update

By Kathleen Lau December 6, 2007

Includes tools for managing trade promotions, business communication and pipeline performance management

Oracle hypes Hyperion acquisition

By Shane Schick and Howard Solomon April 15, 2007

Company vows to create a more comprehensive business intelligence suite, but competitors shrug. However, an industry analyst thinks one of them may be swallowed

Oracle snaps up Hyperion

By Howard Solomon and Shane Schick March 1, 2007

The database company wants to increase its performance management offerings. A Hyperion partner praises the move, while a competitor shrugs it off.rn

Unbreakable and invisible?

By Howard Solomon February 19, 2007

14 weeks ago Oracle announced its so-called Unbreakable Linux program. There’s no indication yet customers are signing up

Oracle shocks Linux groups

By Howard Solomon and Shane Schick November 21, 2006

Oracle has surprised the Linux community by announcing it will provide the same enterprise class support for the open source operating system as it gives for its database, applications and middleware.