Computer Associates (CA) has bought Sterling Software in a deal valued at more than $4bn stock-for-stock deal which it claims is the largest in the history of the software industry. CA is offering 0.5634 of CA shares per Sterling share and the deal...
Four companies in talks to join are Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Novell and SAP, according to Cohen. OSDL's mission to bring high-end features to Linux is precisely what SCO has argued can't be done without infringing on its own Unix intellectual...
Software giant Computer Associates, like many companies in the tech space, has enjoyed mixed fortunes in recent years. Last year's management coup and talk of accounting scandal spiced up its steady exit from the downturn but with its infamous...
Hewlett-Packard, for example, has struggled to define what it means when it talks about connecting computer systems to business processes in its vision of an "Adaptive Enterprise. We're in the process of evaluating the goals and mission of the...
The company is scheduled to announce on Wednesday a $1m contest to promote usage of its Ingres r3 database, which it is releasing into an open-source project this week. CA will offer five prizes - topping out around $300,000 for the first-place...
The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial...
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