IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not provided.

Progress Software CEO Richard Reidy is leaving the company once his successor is found, the middleware vendor said Monday. Reidy is stepping down under mutual agreement with the company's board, according to a statement.

Name: Charles F. Wagner, executive vice president, Finance & Administration, and CFO

Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service, Database.com, set to be announced Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

ISV turned reseller, Markinson Business Solutions, plans to acquire at least three companies by the end of the financial year.

Middleware vendor Progress Software announced Monday it has purchased BPM (business process management) vendor Savvion for approximately US$49 million.

Progress Software's co-founder and CEO Joseph Alsop has resigned, and the infrastructure software vendor has named long-time company executive Richard Reidy to replace him.