Sun Micro sales fall, Oracle deal delay stings (Reuters) Reuters - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc suffered a 25 percent fall in quarterly revenue, as uncertainty over its delayed sale to Oracle Corp hurt its business. IBM offers to swap higher-interest debt (AP) AP - IBM Corp. on Friday made an offer to certain debt holders to swap their long-term debt with bonds carrying a lower interest rate plus cash in a move to save money and bolster its balance sheet. Report: SAP CEO Asked Ellison for Meeting on Sun-EU Impasse (PC World) PC World - Shortly after European regulators opened an antitrust probe into Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, SAP CEO Léo Apotheker wrote Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, asking for a meeting to discuss the merger and "other open issues" between the vendors, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial published late Thursday. Microsoft Seeks to Leverage Midmarket ERP (PC World) PC World - Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological capabilities, but its tight focus on small and medium-sized businesses gives it an edge, according to observers and company officials.. IBM Sets up Top-end Business Analytics Center in India (PC World) PC World - IBM has set up a center in Bangalore that will focus on offering high-end expertise to the business analytics market worldwide. Commerce Search Aims To Help Retailers Boost Sales (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - As part of its quest to organize the world's information, Google is upping its commitment to organizing everything you can buy. On Thursday, the search giant announced Google Commerce Search, a new hosted enterprise search product that will help customers find products at online retail stores and e-commerce sites. IBM Announces Cloud Software-development Betas (PC World) PC World - IBM on Thursday announced beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds. Google Releases Core Development Tools as Open Source (PC World) PC World - Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. Google Dashboard: A Closer Look (PC World) PC World - Google showed Thursday it's getting more serious about privacy when it launched a tool called Google Dashboard that aims to give you more control over your personal data stored on Google's servers. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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