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  • PeopleSoft rejects revised Oracle bid

    PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's revised hostile bid, saying it believes the company is worth more than US$26 a share.

  • Oracle seeks EU approval on buyout

    Oracle on Tuesday officially submitted its notification papers to the European Commission on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft.

  • Canada weighs in on Oracle's takeover bid

    Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft is currently under review by Canadian antitrust regulators, adding yet another antitrust hurdle for the database-software maker to jump.

  • Microsoft eyes larger acquisitions

    Microsoft's financial chief said this week that the software giant is more likely to make big acquisitions than it has been in the past.

  • Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL

    Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy.

  • April plans for Sun's storage roadmap

    Sun Microsystems will outline its long-term storage strategy in early April following the completion of the company's US$4.1 billion acquisition of storage vendor StorageTek back in September last year.

  • Microsoft buys VPN specialist

    Microsoft has agreed to acquire Whale Communications, a specialist in secure remote access and Web application firewalls.

  • Microsoft puts its stamp on e-mail security

    Microsoft is expected to launch updated and renamed Antigen e-mail security products, nearly a year after completing the takeover of their maker, Sybari.

  • VMWare aims higher with new bundle

    VMWare is expected to introduce a new product bundle this week that it hopes will extend its lead in the virtualisation software market.

  • Google: No Web browser plans

    Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into Vista.

  • Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE

    Google seems to want special treatment on Internet Explorer, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

  • Google buys Web word-processing technology

    Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said on Thursday that it has snapped up Writely, a maker of a Web-based word processor.

  • Fate uncertain for ex-Sybari workers at Microsoft

    A month after closing its acquisition of Sybari Software, Microsoft is weighing the fate of roughly half of the security software maker's work force.

  • RSA confab: Boom times for security

    The security industry converges at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, an event that's moved far beyond its origins as a get-together for cryptogeeks and other insiders.

  • Microsoft easing into antivirus efforts

    Microsoft is trying to dampen speculation that it will make a major acquisition in the antivirus market.

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