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TmaxSoft says Tibero 6 is aimed at customers looking for a lower-cost alternative to Oracle

Implementing a business process management tool can get rid of the "human glue" that is often needed to bind processes in an IT environment, a CA Inc. executive told the company's user conference this week

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) spent US$4.1 million more than necessary during the last five years to acquire and maintain desktop software, according to a report by Gregory Friedman, the department's inspector general (IG).

German business software vendor SAP AG is extending its Safe Passage maintenance and migration program to all companies in the U.S. running PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards (JDE) applications, SAP said Monday. The Safe Passage program, launched in January, initially targeted SAP customers who also ran applications from either or both of these software vendors. Around 2,000 SAP customers fit into this target group. More than 6,500 companies currently use PeopleSoft and JDE software products, according to SAP.

PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors on Wednesday rejected Oracle Corp.'s latest unsolicited offer to buy the enterprise resource management software company. PeopleSoft, in Pleasanton, Calif., also announced that it has settled a number of class action suits filed against it in connection with Oracle's bid.

Oracle Corp. announced the second release of its Oracle9i database and a partnership with Red Hat Inc. to further promote the Linux platform

Oracle Corp. announced the second release of its Oracle9i database and partnership with Red Hat Inc. to further promote the Linux platform and even drew Dell Computer Corp. into the fold.