Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a licence related to data storage technology.
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Whale Communications, a specialist in secure remote access and Web application firewalls.
Microsoft is expected to launch updated and renamed Antigen e-mail security products, nearly a year after completing the takeover of their maker, Sybari.
Analyst report speculates that Google may want to pre-empt Microsoft takeover and protect the revenue Google gets from its biggest partner.
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.
Financial software giant Sage has announced aggressive plans to make an impact on the Australian small and medium enterprise market.
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.
In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft comprised an oligopoly for back-office business applications.
A federal judge gave Oracle a boost last week in its bid to buy PeopleSoft. The ruling is bad news for the software business and for customers.
An economist testified Friday that an Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft would allow the database powerhouse and SAP to unfairly dominate the market for business software.
Oracle attorneys displayed internal PeopleSoft documents during testimony Thursday that showed the company was indeed concerned about growing competition in business applications from Microsoft and Lawson Software.
The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.
Microsoft will use its marketing muscle to spread .Net's message and eat into Java's market share as it begins a takeover of the development world.
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.
Decisions by a United States court and European Union officials to effectively clear regulatory hurdles from the path of Oracle's proposed US$7.7 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft are poised to persuade Australian competition regulators to green-light the transaction.
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