A key plank of Oracle's strategy for growth over the next few years is to reposition itself as a strategic partner rather than simply remain a technology supplier in key enterprise accounts.
Open source software is seeing slow but steady adoption among large UK businesses as they begin to take it to the heart of their organisations. One key factor that has held back adoption has been a lack of enterprise-class support and services, but this is changing.
Investment firm Delta Lloyd Germany, part of the Aviva Group, is using the Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system to manage its move to a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
No-one goes into IT just to maintain and tweak old applications. The main attraction is always in creating new systems, preferably using the latest technology. Systems development not only makes life a lot more interesting, but when it comes to finding a new job, it certainly adds lustre to the CV.
BEA Systems has introduced BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide SOA deployments.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) projects are in danger of failing to fulfil their potential through lack of governance, a survey of IT directors has found.
More than 40 global user firms have set up a standard to test secure programming skills for Java programmers. This follows last month's move by software suppliers under the SafeCode initiative.