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Oracle shifts multicore licensing model

July 14, 2005 Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. TAGS: multi-core processor, Oracle Corp., multi-core, policy, BEA Systems Inc., pricing, Forrester Research Inc., middleware, application server, IBM Corp., software company, database, dual-core processor, dual-core, Sun Microsystems Inc., server

HP, Intel tussle with Oracle over dual-core chips

February 11, 2005 As more cores end up on each chip, software licenses will increase in cost--but out of all proportion to the cost of the hardware. TAGS: Oracle Corp., multi-core, Intel Itanium, dual-core processor, software license, hardware maker, BEA Systems Inc., two-processor, Intel, Intel Pentium, dual-core, software company, CPU, HP, Microsoft Corp.

Borland names new CEO

November 8, 2005 Tod Nielsen, who has worked at Oracle, BEA and Microsoft, takes the helm at the struggling software company. TAGS: Borland Software Corp., BEA Systems Inc., middleware, development tool, CEO, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.

What's Microsoft's next move in fight for Yahoo?

February 11, 2008 After a resounding "no" on its unsolicited buyout offer for Yahoo, Redmond will either up the ante or ready a one-two punch. TAGS: shareholder, investor, BEA Systems Inc., bid, Yahoo! Inc., fight, punch, buyer, proposal, offer, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Week in review: Snuffing out OS bugs

November 16, 2007 Microsoft and Apple release dueling OS updates, while Oracle looks to the past and future. Also: Going green in the garage. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., Week in review, BEA Systems Inc., bug, Microsoft Windows Live, reader, patch management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, Apple Computer, operating system, conference, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp.

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

January 31, 2006 The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools. TAGS: IBM DB2, James Gosling, Oracle Corp., software developer, programming tool, IBM Corp., open source, database server, BEA Systems Inc., database, free version, vendor, software company, Microsoft Corp., server

Software: No longer business as usual

November 17, 2005 Microsoft's eyeing free, ad-supported products while companies dump "big beast" software projects in favor of hosted. TAGS: TRW, software industry, software-as-a-service, annuity, SAP AG, shift, Salesforce.com Inc., BEA Systems Inc., consultant, Oracle Corp., software company, open source, Microsoft Corp.
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