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Dave Duffield, the co-founder of PeopleSoft has announced the availability of the first of four planned suites from his new on-demand ERP software company Workday Inc.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is gradually providing more details on how it plans to open source its core Java technology. The vendor intends to make both Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) freely available in "the November time frame."

IBM Corp. is filling holes in its service oriented architecture (SOA) product lineup, notably in the areas of business process management and industry-specific services.

John Chambers, the chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., was in fine evangelical mode Tuesday, laying out his company's vision of a future where intelligent networks power IT and collaboration is the key driver for businesses.

Open-source company MySQL AB confirmed recent reports that it will offer a database monitoring and advisory service as part of its MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service later this year.

Hoping that the third time's a charm, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has again extended the deadline for Mercury Interactive Corp. shareholders to approve HP's US$4.5 billion pending purchase of Mercury.

SAP AG plans to make it simpler for developers to work with NetWeaver in a bid to expand the appeal of the integration platform which is central to recent versions of the vendor's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

The U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is set to deploy IBM Corps speech-to-speech translation software to help U.S. forces serving in Iraq better communicate with local security forces and Iraqi citizens.