The News Review:
- IBM ffers Trial ‘System S’ Software For Stream Computing
- Emptoris to acquire software business
- Microsoft’s Software Pipeline Set to Burst
- racle Wanted Sun’s Software Unit nly Records Show
- Take Two Software Versus 3D Realms: Court Documents Released
- Software piracy still serious problem in RP Asia-Pacific
- Microsoft teams with Chinese city to fight piracy
IBM ffers Trial ‘System S’ Software For Stream Computing
ChannelWeb
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Emptoris to acquire software business
Bizjournals.com
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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.
racle Wanted Sun’s Software Unit nly Records Show
InformationWeek
racle on March 12 “sent a letter to our board proposing the acquisition by racle of certain of our software assets a minority equity investment by racle in our common stock and entering into certain strategic relationships” Sun said in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The ultimate outcome of the negotiations differed greatly from racle’s original offer.
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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.
Software piracy still serious problem in RP Asia-Pacific
Philippine Star
In the Philippines the piracy rate level remained at 69 percent in 2008 similar to 2007’s. However monetary losses due to this illegal activity rose to $202 million in 2008 from $147 million the previous year.
Microsoft teams with Chinese city to fight piracy
AFP
The deal which the company hopes to be a model for other cities will see it help Hangzhou develop its IT industry while officials will encourage the use of genuine software by consumers government agencies and enterprises. “In partnering with the municipality of Hangzhou we are taking a unique approach to improving the IPR (intellectual property rights) environment” Alec Cooper who helped develop the three-year deal at Microsoft told reporters. Counterfeiting is rampant in China. According to the Business Software Alliance a US-based anti-piracy organisation 82 percent of all personal computer software sold in China in 2007 was pirated.