Wednesday | 3 December, 2008

Stories by: Eric Lai

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Office 2007 Service Pack 2 due early '09 24 October, 2008 07:50:00

Microsoft said via a company blog Wednesday that Service Pack 2 (SP2) of Office 2007 will ship between February and April of next year.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 scores strong first week 22 October, 2008 07:07:00

OpenOffice.org 3.0 was downloaded 3 million times in its first week, with about 80 percent of the downloads by Windows users, an official with the group said in a blog post on Monday.
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New Apple ads avoid Vista, target Microsoft's ads 21 October, 2008 07:52:00

After two months of ad silence, Apple has finally responded to Microsoft's US$300 million Windows image makeover campaign with two new ads that poke fun at Microsoft's TV ads.
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MS Exchange chief to take over Windows Mobile development 20 October, 2008 08:01:00

The Microsoft executive who has overseen development of its popular Exchange communications server software for the past seven years will take over the reportedly-troubled development of Windows Mobile.
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eBay may offer BI-as-a-service to companies 16 October, 2008 08:23:00

eBay, which runs a gigantic data warehouse for internal business intelligence (BI) analytics, is considering taking it outside its firewall and offering it as a Web service to interested companies.
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Microsoft looks to unlock door to wider BI use 14 October, 2008 07:24:00

SQL Server may be one of the most popular databases among corporate users, but Microsoft is a relative laggard in the business intelligence market. It ranked just fifth among BI vendors last year, according to market research firm IDC.
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Teradata releases 50 petabyte data warehousing appliance 14 October, 2008 09:31:00

Teradata made a trio of announcements today designed to keep the data warehousing vendor in the pole position of the suddenly competitive business intelligence race.
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With market meltdown, which tech firms become predator or prey? 13 October, 2008 07:39:00

While most eyes are still on stopping the bleed on Wall Street, smart tech companies will likely take a page out of Warren Buffet's playbook by looking for merger and acquisition opportunities with stocks at multi-year lows.
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Microsoft's (un)secret weapon for winning the BI battle 08 October, 2008 08:18:00

SQL Server may be one of the most popular databases today, but Microsoft nevertheless remains a laggard in the business intelligence market. It ranked just fifth among BI vendors last year, according to research firm IDC.
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Oracle tries to step up on high-end databases 07 October, 2008 08:23:00

Since 2005, Oracle has spent at least US$32 billion on acquisitions -- turning itself into the vendor of a top-to-bottom enterprise software stack that is arguably broader in scope than any rival suite.
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Oracle pushes compression as cheaper database scale-up method 30 September, 2008 08:37:00

Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage, a new method of retrieving data more quickly and intelligently, and -- wait for it -- a US$2.33 million price tag.