While the worst of the recession may now be behind us business executives will still be looking for cost-reduction initiatives across the company. It’s time for IT departments to consider their Microsoft licensing spend and ask if open source makes better sense.

Analyst and consultant Josh Greenbaum has criticised the European Commission’s view that Oracle should jettison MySQL. Part of his argument is that MySQL can’t die because it is open source – and, Greenbaum says, this means there is no end of suckers willing to maintain it for free.

Australian-listed enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, has created a new executive role in a move which the company says is the next step in its development and achievement of a long-term strategy for its vertical markets business.

Enterprises globally are expected to adopt cloud solutions en masse in the next 12 months, according to a new study published in a whitepaper by search leader Google. CRM, however, will not be the major driving application.

IBM is claiming a series of competitive wins against Microsoft. Big name companies are said to be choosing Lotus products over Microsoft's collaboration software.

IBM claims "hundreds" of SAP users are getting better performance at lower cost by adopting DB2 in place of Oracle Database.

Many organisations appear to do a poor job of managing software licence compliance. Here's some advice from a 'gamekeeper' about staying legal.

NetSuite's 'cash for clunkers' offer can trim $500 from every $5000 spent by new customers on the company's cloud enterprise applications.

Last night Microsoft delivered key announcements for Office 2010, Windows 7 and the Windows Partner programme at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC.) This includes the product range for Office 2010 as well as the availability of volume licensing for Windows 7.

SAP wants to teach its customers how to get better value from the software they're already paying for.