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  • Sun completes StorageTek acquisition

    Sun Microsystems' US$4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology is a done deal, giving the server and software company a source of growing revenue and a major storage sales force.

  • Microsoft can raise Yahoo bid 'by 10 percent'

    Microsoft may find it has some leeway in increasing its Yahoo bid by 10 percent without spooking its investors, one Wall Street analyst notes in a research report released yesterday.

  • Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream

    Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips.

  • Sun loss levels; acquisitions bring growth

    Sun Microsystems on Tuesday reported a slightly narrower net loss of US$123 million for its first quarter of fiscal year 2006, which included results from the acquisitions of Storage Technology and SeeBeyond and the mandatory arrival of stock-option accounting.

  • Oracle adds computer-security firm to shopping basket

    Oracle has acquired a privately held computer-security company, continuing an acquisition spree started in recent months.

  • EMC completes VMWare acquisition

    Storage technology specialist EMC has completed its acquisition of server software maker VMware, announcing Friday the final purchase price of US$625 million in cash.

  • Oracle e-mails urge scare tactics

    Three days before Oracle publicly announced its intention to buy PeopleSoft, the deal was already viewed as a way to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of PeopleSoft customers.

  • All shook up in Linux land

    The balance of Linux power shifted Tuesday, with Novell announcing an IBM-assisted plan to acquire SuSE Linux.

  • Beseiged PeopleSoft suffers exodus of execs

    An executive exodus at PeopleSoft has some outside experts worried that Oracle's hostile buyout bid, coupled with a difficult sales climate, has taken a bigger toll than the software maker is letting on.

  • Sun's new MD to focus on green IT and open source

    Sun Microsystems has appointed Duncan Bennet as its new Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. Bennet told ZDNet.com.au that open source, and green datacentres were the future for Sun.

  • MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan

    Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community.

  • MySQL plug-ins to be closed-source

    MySQL's move to begin offering parts of its namesake database as closed source only will apply only to plug-ins such as encryption and compression according to co-founder David Axmark.

  • Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift

    Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week.

  • MySQL gives Sun a foot in the door

    Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.

  • Sun: US recession would help open source

    Sun executives claim that open source will benefit as US consumer spending grinds to a halt, and that its revenues are not negatively impacted by its development of "free" software.

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