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RIM Surges On Strong Profits
An unexpectedly strong earnings report buoyed shares of Research In Motion Ltd. by more than 50 percent on Tuesday. The maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device had reported a day earlier that revenue for its third quarter ended on November 29 rose to $153.9 million, an increase of 107 percent over the same period…
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Oracle 10g’s the Cat’s Meow, Says the IOUG
Whether it’s company flaks, the media or users, everybody’s talking about the forthcoming 10g products from Oracle. With Oracle Application Server 10g already out and Oracle Database 10g on the threshold of release, I turned to the International Oracle Users Group to get an update on what early users like and don’t like in the…
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Avaya Wraps Up Package for Smaller Businesses
Avaya Inc. has a new hardware/software communications package for small and midsize businesses looking for IT answers with fewer integration challenges. “You could go buy four or five different boxes, log in to each one, administer each of them, and read the manuals for each one,” said Saied Seghatoleslami, vice president of product management and…
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Certive Releases Data Integration Server
Certive Corp. is trying to redefine the concept of data integration with its Certive Server. The new data integration and management platform, introduced last week, is positioned to enterprises as an all-in-one alternative to existing tools for data extraction, transformation and loading; data marts; OLAP (online analytic processing) cubes; and front-end business intelligence applications. Tools…
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EMC to Tap Into VMware Virtualization Capabilities
After working together quietly for nearly a year, EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. made it official last week with the storage vendor buying the smaller software company in a bid to offer combined storage and server virtualization and management tools. The $635 million cash deal is expected to result in some 20 new offerings in…
