Recent Acquisitions: News

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Oracle on Thursday is releasing updates to the standard edition of Java and the JavaFX rich client application platform, including the first delivery of the Java Development Kit and JavaFX Software Development Kit for Mac OS X. The latest enhancements for Java garbage collection and the Java Virtual Machine are featured as well.

Organizations running a lot of Oracle gear and software could now get some management assistance from a software program that Oracle has made free for customers.

Last month, Michael Dell let the world know that Dell is “not really a PC company”. Today, Dell announced that it has reached an agreement with Wyse that extends Dell’s portfolio of products and services even further beyond the traditional PC market.

Oracle said Thursday it has acquired ClearTrial, which offers cloud-based applications that help companies run clinical trials of new drugs. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of this year, were not disclosed.

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Dell has acquired security vendor SonicWall for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is expected to be completed within the next 60 days.

R.K. Anand, executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks' Data Center Business Unit, was employee No. 12 of the network startup back in 1996, leaving a job as a microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems. Years later he left Juniper for a brief stint at another startup, but came back to help finalize the company's QFabric product and get it out the door. QFabric began shipping in September 2011. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Anand at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a deep dive on the company's answer to high-end data center demands.

Mobile development is as much about UI artistry and screen flow as technical programming. This premium on presentation means that the most important skills for building mobile apps are more likely to be found in your Web developers than your Objective-C coders.

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.