Borland is hoping to appeal to companies seeking an alternative to Microsoft and will extend the .Net Framework - the "plumbing" underlying .Net - to operate with a mix of operating systems and programming languages, said company executives.
Enterprise software maker BMC Software has announced plans to acquire Marimba in an all-cash deal. BMC will pay $8.25 per share, or a total of approximately $240m, for the software company. The company will be integrated into BMC's Remedy business...
In application and systems management, IBM competes directly with Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard and BMC Software, which each sell a suite of applications for monitoring system performance. The purchase of Cyanea, which represents the 17th...
Other companies such as BMC Software and CA, which compete against HP in IT management software, don't yet have the variety of software products that HP would add with Mercury on board, he said. IBM's position among SOA developers was an especially...
The online learning material is taken from Open University courses and uses technologies including videoconferencing, mind maps and instant messaging to get teachers and students interacting and learning.
At present, just eight per cent of GCSE students take three separate science courses, which the CBI hopes to raise to 40 per cent. The CBI has a five point plan aimed at achieving a target of 2.4 million workers qualified in these subjects by 2014...