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Lawson Software continues to broaden its relationship with close partner IBM as the midmarket applications vendor Monday announced plans to enter the hosting market and use more of IBM's middleware.

Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System set of subscription-based enterprise middleware with the emphasis on making the offering more modular.

Oracle Corp. Monday unveiled a new management tool to help its database users determine when to move, archive and delete data

Ten leading open-source software vendors have created a nonprofit consortium, dubbed the Open Solutions Alliance, to push the adoption of more open-source technology in the business world.

Oracle Corp. Monday unveiled an addition to its Fusion middleware, Oracle Data Integrator, to help users quickly bring together in a single place the huge amounts of information in different databases and applications across their organizations.

HP announced Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bristol as a way to beef up its business technology optimization (BTO) product offerings. The vendor didn't reveal the financial terms of the deal.

CA Inc. has unveiled plans to simplify the naming of its entire software range over the next 12 to 18 months to better brand the products and more clearly indicate their function.

IBM Corp. and Lawson Software Inc. are expanding their existing relationship to jointly target small and midsize business users, initially in North America and three specific industries.