Although SAP has slowed down the rollout of its on-demand ERP offering Business ByDesign, that decision has given the company more time to implement its in-memory database technology into the software, said SAP's co-founder Hasso Plattner during a keynote address

A beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released for evaluation by the public.

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will form a joint venture worth $14.5 billion to deploy the first nationwide mobile WiMax network, they said Wednesday.

It is unlikely that SAP will offer full-blown, on-demand versions of its Business One or All-in-One ERP products in the future as a follow-up to its hosted offering, Business ByDesign, according to co-CEO Henning Kagermann.

Microsoft has released a software add-in to help those who have difficulty reading printed documents to turn Word documents into audio files.

Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

A new Forrester report says that enterprise mashups, while not yet a panacea for connecting all the dots of corporate data, will help companies (and their employees) mix and match information to help them do their jobs better. According to

In the beginning, Mainsoft released Visual MainWin for Java EE, which compiled .Net CIL (Common Intermediate Language) code into Java bytecode. As technically fascinating as that was, on its own it provided limited traction. Much of Microsoft's attractiveness to the

Parallels Desktop for Mac will be made available as part of the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription.

Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun's open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week.

CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies.

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Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won't fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI software, with their respective purchases of Cognos and Business Objects.

Broadband providers are engaging in reasonable network management when they slow their customers' access to p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks, a representative of the cable industry told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday.

Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.

As its stock price plummets, Yahoo's executives must do something tangible and do it quickly to prove to shareholders that fighting a takeover bid by Microsoft was the right thing to do, analysts said Monday.

Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology.

While Yahoo would have given Microsoft's Internet business an immediate boost, Microsoft has closed that chapter and is focused on moving forward, a Microsoft official said Tuesday.