Laura Rohde

Software vendor Commerce One Inc. is to sell its Commerce One.net marketplace to eScout LLC, the companies announced.

German enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor SAP AG has folded e-procurement services company Emaro AG into its operations.

AmberPoint Inc. has integrated its flagship software product, Management Foundation, with IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Systems Inc., AmberPoint announced this week.

HP has secured six government IT contracts across Europe with a total value of over US$500 million, the Palo Alto, California, company announced Thursday.

A U.S. trade association, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), has urged the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) to rethink its use and promotion of free and open-source software.

Despite the economic slowdown being felt worldwide and the decline of many Internet-based businesses, global use of the Net continues to boom while e-commerce grows at a robust pace, according to figures released by the United Nations (U.N.) this week.

IBM Corp. has secured a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), valued at between US$216 million to US$267 million, to build two supercomputers, including the ASCI Purple, which is being billed as the first computer to top 100 teraflops, or 100 trillion calculations per second, IBM said Tuesday.

Mobile manufacturers NTT DoCoMo Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have come to an agreement regarding intellectual property rights (IPR) and the assessment of royalty rates on the use of W-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access) technology, the companies announced.