Recent Acquisitions: News

Australian digital marketing agency, Next Digital, has acquired South-East Asian digital marketing agency, FutureLab Asia, as part of its growth strategy in Asia.

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.

Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

Training IT Professionals sold to Crystal Echo

Oracle executives on Tuesday gave a more detailed picture of their plans to integrate technologies gained through October's US$1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, maker of cloud-based software for customer service through the Web, social networks and contact centers.

Infor has rebranded and revamped its software support offerings in a bid to cement its profile as a potential alternative to rivals like SAP and Oracle.

Energy management company, Schneider Electric, has acquired the Viridity EnergyCentre 2.0 platform, a product specialising in DCIM management software.

Atlassian in January plans to ship software providing crash reporting and issue detection for mobile applications.

Software provider, Markinson, has been acquired by Canadian software and services group, Constellation Software, for an undisclosed sum.

For the new release of its WebLogic, Oracle has tailored the enterprise Java application server so that it can be used more easily in cloud deployments.

Fibre-optic network owner Amcom has bought West Australian based IT firm L7 Solutions for $15 million.

Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products, the company announced Wednesday.

Oracle's Project Nashorn is focused on developing a JavaScript engine for the company's JVM (Java Virtual Machine) that is intended to leverage JVM libraries and offer higher performance than the current Rhino JavaScript engine, a company official said on Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard has secured enough shares of Autonomy to take control of the UK software company.

One thing became clear at Oracle's OpenWorld conference on Monday: The vendor is intent on drilling the benefits of its hardware-plus-software systems into a customer base that largely remains invested only in Oracle's applications, databases and middleware.

Purchases Future Townsville for an undisclosed sum

Online retailer, Ohki has entered into a heads of agreement to purchase Sydney-based electrical goods retail outlet, Stax Electrical.

Meru Networks acquires Identity Networks

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today acquired high-end network-attached storage (NAS) vendor BlueArc in an all-cash deal.

US-based Google Apps service provider, Cloud Sherpas, has acquired Brisbane-based Google Apps partner, Devnet, for an undisclosed sum.