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Mercury snags Kintana for $225M

Mercury Interactive Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kintana Inc. for about $225 million in stock and cash.

Tech.Ed Reporter's Notebook: What's the matter with IT?

A look at the buzz surrounding a prediction of IT's demise.

JBoss releases developer edition

New lower cost version available from open-source vendor.

Java faithful gather in SF for 8th JavaOne

Preview of weeklong Java conference.

Sybase makes $25M bet on Wi-Fi

Company will work with universities and industry partners.

Gartner: “Reasonable probability” Oracle will take over PeopleSoft

Whether the deal goes through or not, it is likely to have an immediate negative impact on PeopleSoft.

Oracle offers $5.1 B for PeopleSoft

Database and applications giant Oracle Corp. today launched an effort to take over applications competitor PeopleSoft Inc. for about $5.1 billion.

SCO Group says it has proof of Unix copyright ownership

CEO says newly-discovered document key to claim.

Company Update: Microsoft in 2003

A look back at a busy first half of the year.

XML helps add Flash to online Help

Video combines with traditional text help.

Serena buys TeamShare to enhance ECM product

Acquisition boosts companay's ChangeMan system.

CyberSource announces payment support for Web services

New suite of interfaces supports SOAP, XML, and WS Security.

WiMAX standard will augment Wi-Fi, report says

New broadband standard could outdo 802.11.

SCO promises to show allegedly copied code

SCO fires back in legal fight over Unix and Linux.

HP turns to Jabber for enterprise IM

Company teams up with instant messaging and presence technology firm.

Update: PeopleSoft to buy J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion

Enterprise software maker buys enterprise applications firm.

Book Review: Managing risk on software projects

Ways to beat the odds while putting a product out on time.

Novell disputes SCO’s Linux moves

In a letter to UNIX-champion SCO, Novell's Jack Messman said SCO did not own copyrights and patent rights to Unix -- rights it has recently asserted versus Linux vendors.