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Sun Goes After HP-UX Customers
Not satisfied with its assault on HP’s Tru64 customer base, Sun Microsystems has made a move to go after HP-UX customers as well, offering them a “risk free” move to SPARC-based or Opteron-based hardware. For several months now, Sun has been trying to convince old DEC and Compaq users to come over to the Solaris…
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New Prescription for Pharmaceuticals
Is all the RFID noise giving you a headache? Take two aspirin and call Accenture Ltd. in the morning. The management consulting firm has organized a group of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers to explore radio frequency identification’s (RFID’s) true ability to: • enhance the safety and security of the pharmaceutical supply chain; • improve…
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Sun Loses Sueltz to Salesforce.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. lost another key executive Wednesday when the company announced the departure of Patricia Sueltz, formerly executive vice president of Sun Services. Sueltz, 51, left Sun for Salesforce.com, where she will assume the position of president of marketing, technology and systems. Sueltz is scheduled to begin her tenure at Salesforce.com Thursday, Sun officials…
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Salesforce.com Adds WebSphere to Sforce
Salesforce.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new offering that extends its sforce hosted application development environment to IBM’s WebSphere application server. The new hosted service offering, dubbed the sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, allows developers to use IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build extensions to Salesforce.com that integrate customer data stored…
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DOJ Nixes Oracle’s PeopleSoft Takeover Bid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will seek to block Oracle Corp.’s $9.4 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Corp. Assistant Attorney General R. Hewette Pate will now look to the federal courts to for an injunction blocking the hostile takeover deal on the grounds that a merger between the two e-business applications developers is…
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Microsoft Rights Management Coming to Third-Party Apps
Microsoft Corp.’s rights management technology is coming to a host of third-party desktop and line-of-business applications—with or without the blessing of the app vendors themselves. Microsoft introduced last year its Rights Management Services (RMS) solution, designed to control the digital distribution of documents. Since then, several services and infrastructure firms, such as EDS, Digex, Reciprocal,…
