SOFTWARE NEWS SUMMARY
SandHill.com's review of the week in software news.
- Anti-Independence Day
If you can’t beat ‘em, partner with ‘em; plus, Microsoft fires warning shot with disruptive technology, Mac making Vista waves, U.S. economy is affecting software spend, Microsoft tries again with Yahoo and more software news of the week.
Week ending July 3, 2008 - Gates’ Getaway
Gates and Ellison vie for headlines to the last; plus Salesforce.com and Google are best friends, the Symbian Foundation threatens Google and Microsoft, Dell may be planning to go SaaS, Red Hat reports Q1 and more software news of the week.
Week ending June 27, 2008 - More Software News Summaries >>
Top Stories
Software business news from around the Web.
- U.S. Stocks Slump as Oil Surges; Dow Average Enters Bear Market (Bloomberg)
- Oracle Still Not Keen on SaaS (SeekingAlpha)
- Financial Objects Jumps Most Since 1998 on Takeover (Bloomberg)
- Open Source Could Doom Exchange, One IT Pro Believes (NetworkWorld)
- Existing Technologies Can Nearly Halve Energy Use: Report (GreenerComputing)
- Corel 2nd-Quarter Earnings Plunge 60 Percent (BusinessWeek)
- 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren't Ready to Trust the Cloud (Gigaom)
- Ex-Hewlett-Packard VP Indicted for Stealing IBM Secrets (BizJournals)
- Office Subscription Service Ready to Go (News.com)
- The Big Squeeze (Newsweek)
- More Software News >>
Open Source
- Open Source Could Doom Exchange, One IT Pro Believes (NetworkWorld)
- How Much Open Source Are You Using? (ITBusinessEdge)
- Oracle Still Not Keen on SaaS (SeekingAlpha)
- Office Subscription Service Ready to Go (News.com)
- Interview: HP SOA Center Director Tim Hall on New Business Drivers and..... (ZDNet)
- A Tale of Two Days at Web Content 2008 (CMSWatch)
- Existing Technologies Can Nearly Halve Energy Use: Report (GreenerComputing)
- Cost-Cutting Through Green IT Security: Real or Myth? (CSOonline)
- Information Technology Can Cut Global Emissions 15% by 2020 - Report (SustainableBusiness)
- More News About Green Tech>>
- Beyond CRM 2.0 (CRMBuyer)
- SOA and Web 2.0 'mash-ups' for Business Enhancement (IT-Director)
- 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren't Ready to Trust the Cloud (Gigaom)
- Partly Cloudy: Enterprise Software, Onsite and Off (CIOInsight)
- Saved by SaaS: Data Backup via Software as a Service (ComputerWorld)
- Worldwide Security Software Market Grows 20% (ComputerWeekly)
- Where the Truth is: Logs and Breach-disclosure Laws (ComputerWorld)
- Agents Can Randomly Seize Travelers' laptops or PDAs (BaltimoreSun)
- The Big Squeeze (Newsweek)
- Offshoring Interest Shifts From India to Americas (SearchCIO)
- Media Death March: Orange County Register Outsources to India (Wired)
- More News About Offshoring & Outsourcing>>
- Financial Objects Jumps Most Since 1998 on Takeover (Bloomberg)
- IBM Acquires Platform Solutions (CNNMoney)
- On-Demand Software Integration Startup Boomi Raises $4 Million (WashingtonPost)
- $34m VC Round for Spanish SaaS Venture (ZDNet)
- Silicon Valley Launch: A Visit To Tech's Bleeding Edge (InformationWeek)
- More News About Venture Capital>>
- Eyeblaster Registers for IPO (CNNMoney)
- Web 2.0's Long Road to IPOs (BusinessWeek)
- Corel 2nd-Quarter Earnings Plunge 60 Percent (BusinessWeek)
- Aladdin Hits More than 4-year Low on 2Q Estimates (YahooFinance)
- U.S. Stocks Slump as Oil Surges; Dow Average Enters Bear Market (Bloomberg)
- Stocks Sink Into Summer (USAToday)
- Dell Plans a SaaS Surprise (SeekingAlpha)
- Where Yahoo and Apple Diverged (Forbes)
