The News Review:
- Software rankings: Microsoft in 1st then IBM and racle
- Emptoris to acquire software business
- IBM ffers Trial ‘System S’ Software For Stream Computing
- Microsoft’s Software Pipeline Set to Burst
- Take Two Software Versus 3D Realms: Court Documents Released
- Colorado’s ColdSpark bought by California’s BakBone Software
Software rankings: Microsoft in 1st then IBM and racle
CNET News
com%2F8301-13846_3-10242402-62. html IDC recently published its annual report on software industry market share which ranks software companies by revenue. According to IDC despite racle’s string of large acquisitions including its pending acquisition of Sun it will remain in third place behind Microsoft in first and IBM in second. I received some interesting data points from the IBM PR team:IBM’s software revenue in 2008 totaled $22 billion. Software represents a whopping 40 percent of IBM’s overall profit and 20 percent of its revenue. In 2008 more than 90 percent of IBM’s segment profit was from software services and financing.
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Emptoris to acquire software business
Bizjournals.com
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IBM ffers Trial ‘System S’ Software For Stream Computing
ChannelWeb
body” valueishtml> –>. body” valueishtml> –>IBM released IBM System S a trial version of its previously experimental super-fast stream computing. IBM also said it is opening the IBM European Stream Computing Center in Dublin Ireland which will carry out research customer support and advanced testing for European customers who apply stream computing to their business processes.
Microsoft’s Software Pipeline Set to Burst
PC World
Behind that heavy-hitter lineup of software each one individually capable of providing IT with an upgrade cycle that extends well past 12 months is a new version of SQL Server and an appliance version of the database for massively parallel processing that will come in the first half of 2010Users trying to make sense of it all can add to the mix a handful of code-named projects that includes new Application Server technology for Internet Information Server (Dublin); a client console for Forefront security software (Stirling); a distributed cache system for clustering technology (Velocity); and a componentized version of Windows Embedded for devices (Quebec). All that software will be available in late 2009 and throughout 2010. This week’s TechEd agenda was jammed with sessions centered on no fewer than 10 code-named future products. “In the tech sector there is a lot of planning and strategy going on” says Karen Hobert principal analyst at Top Dog consulting. “When the dust settles people may strategize around all this and figure out how to balance cost with operational innovation. Hobert says the economy is forcing CIs to take a collective inhale and a wait-and-see attitude.
Take Two Software Versus 3D Realms: Court Documents Released
Ve3d.com
Primarily the publisher demands a complete snapshot of the game in its current state and all associated source code and assets. Secondly Take Two demands that 3D Realms not leak the game or its.
Colorado’s ColdSpark bought by California’s BakBone Software
Bizjournals.com
an enterprise-email company based in Broomfield has been bought by data-protection firm. _FB675E46AACD4A1DA790876B2B8223E5.