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HP-EDS: the failed CRM project that cost it £200m ...and counting
EDS has been ordered to pay broadcaster BSkyB £200 million, as an interim payment after losing a huge fraud court case over a failed system implementation.
Oracle and Sun customers face negotiating challenge
Could the combined open source/database vendor be too big to bargain with?
UK software industry is alive and well
The world is fixated with the launch of Windows 7 but Microsoft and its new operating system is not the only IT story worth telling.
Devil was in details of Yahoo, Microsoft search tie-up
Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer said they needed time to hash out the specifics of a deal that took more than a year to seal
Microsoft-Yahoo deal a long time in the making
The road leading to the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, finally announced today, has been long.
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Microsoft's Linux kernel submission driven by virtualisation, cloud
Microsoft's submission of virtualisation driver source code to the Linux kernel marks a watershed event in the vendor's understanding of open source's future, according to experts.
Forrester: What customers want from ERP prices
Every enterprise software vendor is hearing the same thing these days from their customers: "I need to cut my software licence and pricing costs. What can you do to help me out?"
Java developers worried despite Ellison assurances on Sun
Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, in San Francisco last week, was notable not for innovation but for a brief speech by Larry Ellison.
When will Oracle push up cost of Sun support?
Analysts predict that Oracle will slowly push up prices for Sun support and warn of a new licensing regime, once the acquisition goes through.
SAP is the biggest loser in Oracle-Sun deal
Oracle's announcement of its intended US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun has certainly shaken up the hardware and server operating system (OS) business markets.
Oracle faces questions from Sun users on takeover
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems is raising questions among users on, well, just about every aspect of the deal.
Microsoft could be a winner in Sun-Oracle deal
If Oracle alienates its server partners and lets MySQL languish, Microsoft could be the beneficiary
Google's Twitter acquisition rumours point to future
While rumours of an imminent Google acquisition of Twitter were apparently off track, it wouldn't be surprising to see the companies strike up a formal collaboration or partnership.
Google open source chief: Java could benefit from IBM/Sun deal
Java developers have expressed concern about IBM's possible take over of Sun microsystems, but Google's head of open source believes all will be well if the merger goes ahead.
Apple earnings: What to look for
Now that we're all over being glued to the television/radio/Internet to watch the inauguration, it's time to move on to the next major event of our times: namely, Apple's fiscal first quarter financial results.
Outsourcing ‘will change’ after £709m BSkyB-EDS court verdict
A verdict is expected in the costly £709 million court case between BSkyB and EDS this month or next, but the legal action could have been avoided through mediation, according to industry observers.
Oracle issues 36 patches, but is anyone applying them?
Many database administrators don't always apply security patches to their environments in a speedy fashion, but that's not stopping Oracle from releasing dozens of them on a quarterly basis.
City crisis signals end of an era in financial IT
Wall Street's financial meltdown promises to forever change the way information technology spending is handled in the securities industry as the old giants of the capital markets stumble and banking behemoths move in to devour them whole or in part, scooping up technology assets.
Microsoft virtualisation 'one-third the price' of VMware
Following its announcement that a stand-alone version of its Hyper-V product would be available as a free download, Microsoft executive Bob Kelly discusses virtualisation.
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