Chris Kanaracus

The announcement comes after speculation and worry among the OpenOffice community

The company reaffirms the middleware stack's strategic value to its plans. Next move: integrate NetWeaver with Sybase

But analysts still expect HP to make a series of software buys under ex-SAP CEO Leo Apotheker's leadership

OPENWORLD: Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the next incarnation of the Exadata concept. The systems support both Solaris and Linux guest OSes and include all the middleware customers need to run applications, Oracle's CEO said

The OpenWorld announcement comes as the companies spar over Mark Hurd's job at Oracle

Poll-takers 'overwhelmingly' say the data-integration vendor is in Oracle's sights. Industry experts discuss the possibility

Initial support for the upcoming software will include Apple devices, BlackBerrys and Android for the Facebook-like milieu for information-sharing and social networking

It's just the latest cloud-related acquisition for CA as the company says it will make a $200-million acquisition to boost its cloud security