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Oracle buying Taleo for £1.2 billion in direct hit at SAP
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.
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Maingear Titan 17 six-core laptop has 1.8TB of SSD storage
Maingear is chasing the laptop performance crown with its latest Titan 17 laptop, which can be configured to include Intel's fastest desktop processor and up to 1.8TB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage.
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SAP reveals HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs
SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.
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SAP withdraws launch date for community portal upgrade
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date.
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SAP plans ERP software for HANA in-memory database
SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, according to executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka.
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SAP boosts training offering after buying Datango software
SAP has acquired software from Datango that will allow it to add multilingual online help and training materials to enterprise software applications.
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Oracle reveal pricing for SAP HANA rival Exalytics
Oracle have quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, a new member in its family of specialised hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, in the same week Oracle announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance.
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Computacenter helps Jaguar supplier deploy IBM SAN
Unipart Logistics, a supply chain service company that delivers parts for Jaguar cars, has been working with Computacenter to implement a new storage solution for the company enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
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Microsoft announce "security feature bypass" for Patch Tuesday
One of the seven updates was tagged "critical," the highest threat ranking in Microsoft's four-step system, while the others were marked "important," the second-highest rating, even though some of them could conceivably be exploited by attackers to plant malware on users' PCs.
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IBM buys software testing vendor Green Hat
IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not provided.
