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Oracle Trial Opens with Wrangle over Market Definition
SAN FRANCISCO—Whether the market for enterprise resource management software is as narrow and limited as the U.S. Department of Justice claims was the focus of opening arguments Monday in the government’s antitrust lawsuit against Oracle. Department of Justice antitrust specialist F. Claude Scott argued that Oracle Corp.’s attempted $7.7 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. is…
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Customers Question Microsoft’s ERP Intentions
Following reports that Microsoft delivered a sworn statement to the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year claiming it had no intentions to enter the enterprise ERP market for at least two years, some company watchers were skeptical. But given Monday’s disclosure by Microsoft that it held merger talks late last year with ERP market…
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EMC Gets Jump on Gov’t Compliance
EMC Corp. is leveraging its Legato and Documentum divisions to build tightly knit hardware, software and services packages to help guide customers through a minefield of growing data retention and e-mail archiving compliance concerns. The EMC Proven preconfigured and tested bundles will relieve enterprise customers of the burden of figuring out where in the various…
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Interlink Brings Enterprise Wi-Fi Security to SMBs
Interlink Networks rolled out Monday a software-based wireless security product that aims to bring high-end enterprise security to small businesses in a setup that’s as easy to configure as security codes in a garage door opener. At least that’s the goal of Mike Klein, president and CEO of Interlink, who believes that small businesses have…
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Low-End Systems Lead Server Demand
Recent reports by the leading market research companies show that worldwide server sales continue to rise, indicating that enterprises are beginning to loosen their purse strings for IT infrastructure purchases. Check out eWEEK.com’s Infrastructure Center at http://infrastructure.eweek.com for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small…
