The United States Oracle: With purchase of the United States BEA as for agreement purchase amount approximately 85 hundred million dollars

For enterprise it announced the software major United States Oracle that January 16th (the American time), it agreed by the fact that the United States BEA of same trade Systems is purchased for 85 hundred million dollars. As for purchase proposition of 3 months ago coming to terms was not attached with the amount and was broken off, but approximately 18 hundred million dollars it added.

As for the presentation amount of Oracle, all stock of BEA per 1 stocks those which are bought with the cash of 19.375 dollars. As for procedure 08 years the schedule which is completed halfway.

As for Oracle per 1 stocks proposing the purchase for of 17 dollars (sum total 66 hundred million 6000 ten thousand dollars) the October last year, vis-a-vis BEA. Vis-a-vis this BEA side had ended negotiation in the breakdown as the amount which appraises the respective company too small.

As for the latest purchase proposition, you say that in the BEA board of directors it was approved in full house agreement. In addition, cirque eye Caen of the investor which possesses approximately 13% of BEA stocks, "it can put out the result activity of the shareholder may cooperate with the management, has put out the comment which welcomes purchase as the good example that".

Turbo Linux and France Mandriva, announcing basic system joint development project

Turbo Linux and French Mandriva 2008 January 16th, announced the new project "Manbo-Labs (mambo laboratory) which" develops the basic system of Linux distribution jointly. Sharing the development resource and technology of the basic system which becomes the core, you aim for the reduction of incidence of development.

On the basis of strategic partnership, it tackles the development of the Linux basic system which can be used commonly with both products. The engineer both focusing on cooperating with the community, the schedule which it advances, in April release it does. You say that it can release with GPL, can adopt also other RPM distribution.

We have assumed that both corporations can lighten the burden of development with joint ownership conversion, can stress to alliance strengthening and the like of compatibility improvement and ISV/IHV of the hardware. In addition, because compound eye point of view is reflected with the cooperation development by the engineer of other companies other culture, you say that you can expect also the quality improvement of the basic system itself.

Both corporations starting the cooperation of labor with Manbo-Labs project in 2007 October. As a first result of Linux basic system development, Linux kernel and library (glibc), compiler (gcc) and such as package management system (rpm) the base element of development tool release is done. <>

The application of Ojis Research and SOA technology is supported "OGIS SOA center" establishment

Ojis Research (head office: Osaka city) 2008 January 17th, enterprise SOA (service direction architecture) the case where technology is adopted it announced that verification environment and the facility "OGIS SOA center" which offers service were established in Tokyo Minato-ku. You aim toward the total optimization with the enterprise information system and the application promotion of SOA technology.

As for SOA because the product and the tool which it diverges very, it consists of the technical group which is annexed, those whose efficiency affinity is good are selected appropriately, the cooperation test becomes necessary.

At center, because it corresponds to such needs, preparing verification environment and the service regarding SOA technical adoption. You think of the various products and the actual user environment where technology exists together, with user point of view you make interoperability of various technologies and to be able to appraise efficiency.

First, "Mule (mule)" of open source ESB with cooperation with the external application is promoted on the center. As for the verification result and the like, the schedule which it keeps announcing from the Web sight and the community sight etc..

Sun purchasing MySQL for 10 hundred million dollars

According tothe contribution of last night (January 15th) community charge vise President Kaj Arno you say thatSun Microsystemshas planned the purchase MySQL AB for enterprise sells the database product, but to be the open source database MySQL which it happens to see here and there that it becomes those bases, as "M" of software stack "LAMP" of the open source and being known it is.

Arno, "trembling, satisfaction, the entering of the various feelings such as doubt, the joy, and insecurity those which it blends" has expressed the reaction of the MySQL community for these news . On the one hand, even with of the Websightof Sun, Jonathan Schwartz of the same company CEO "MySQL it is the platform which is proud of preponderant degree of distinction, the recent developer that network service is constructed making use of this" has recorded.

Sun Microsystems now has affirmed these unexpected news as follows with officialof morning (January 16th). "It was symbol of the open source, it reached to final agreement by the fact that MySQL AB which is advancing the development of the open source database whose evolution is fastest in the world, is purchased for sum total approximately 10 hundred million dollars",

Windows Vista: 48% of enterprises changes and advances introduction

he United States CDW the system integrator recently announced the findings from "of Windows Vista" introduction ratio of enterprise. When the questionnaire is executed in the IT patsy of enterprise, 48% it replies that "introducing or it tested introduced". In comparison with February of 07 previous investigation (29%), the fact that transfer is advanced was shown.

Simply, among the people whom you answer that "introduction it tested introduced", as for 35% "in the middle of movement job", as for "already completing" it is restricted to 13%. You made that enterprise is advancing transfer prudently.

In the reply person of the introduction test introduction being completed, when it has appraising efficiency, as for the half vicinity you say that "above expecting" you answered. Investigation time last year from 10 ends of the month with the November beginning, reply was obtained from 772 people. As for CDW because it is the standpoint where the high-tech product is sold to enterprise and the like, there is also a possibility a little in Vista of having become the favorable result.

IBM, announcing the next generation mainframe "IBM System z10"

IBM Japan, Ltd. 2008 February 26th, announced the next generation mainframe "IBM System z10". You say that throughput can be suitable to the x86 server approximately 1500, each one largest approximately 85% can reduce energy cost and the installation area. Efficiency of data center we assume that it can improve substantially. Shipment was started from the same day.

To utilize , loading maximum of 64 processors, joint ownership is possible. As for memory maximum 1520GB. With CPU constitution of the same number as "System z9" of the type 1.5 times, performance of 1.7 times was achieved until recently with largest loading CPU constitution.

In addition, just in time function and the highest level security appraisal guarantee level of the American government 5 (EAL5) the hypothetical conversion security function etc. which the additional allotment do the resource automatically according to load are had.

With IBM in the future, "Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Solution" and so on for System z the information on demand software is developed. Furthermore, in this year lower half period, the schedule which adds new master data management and data warehouse performance. <>

The United States Novell to purchase PlateSpin of imagination conversion platform management, to imagination conversion strategic strengthening

The United States Novell February 25th (the American time), the Canadian data center/the hypothetical environmental control software vendor, announced that it reaches to agreement by the fact that PlateSpin is purchased. As for purchase amount 2 hundred million 500 ten thousand dollars. It transacts, it anticipates completion to the April this year with the cash.

PlateSpin developing & offering the solution which can manage the job with environment dynamically. You say that both OS of physical below and hypothetical below, it deals with the data and application, server connection it can accelerate by the fact that this is utilized, can automate process such as rearrangement of data center and upgrade of the hardware.

Novell after the purchasing, integrates PlateSpin to the system resource management division. We have assumed that by the fact that the technology 2 is combined, the solution of optimization management, provisioning and disaster restoration etc. can be offered. For example with optimization management, both of physical below and hypothetical below are done monitoring automatically, you say that optimum balance can be maintained according to the work circumstance and demand of the server. In addition, with provisioning, you say that both workloads of physics and imagination can be set regardless of the platform.

The solution of PlateSpin physical below and hypothetical below being both, Linux, UNIX, corresponds to Windows. We have assumed that with Novell in the future, by the fact that the hypothetical conversion technology "Xen" which the respective company adopts so far with the technology of PlateSpin is reinforced, open source hypothetical conversion technology can be led/read.