NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Nokia not only moved to acquire Symbian for $410 million, it also partnered with mobile-industry giants to launch a foundation to provide royalty-free software and accelerate innovation. -- read full article
AP - Red Hat Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter 2009 profit rose 6.6 percent as the software distributor posted an increase in sales led by growth in software-subscription deals. -- read full article
Reuters - Oracle Corp reported a 27
percent rise in quarterly profit as sales of new software beat
expectations, but the company gave a cautious outlook citing
economic uncertainties, and its shares fell 3 percent.
Reuters - Red Hat Inc , the world's
largest publicly traded provider of Linux software, reported on
Wednesday a quarterly profit that met Wall Street expectations
as its revenue grew 32 percent. -- read full article
PC World - A Paris court ruled that an electronics retailer must display separately the price of computers and of the software bundled. -- read full article
PC Magazine - It's officially official: Windows XP will go the way of the dodo on June 30. Sort of. Microsoft has confirmed that you'll actually be able to buy copies at a few shops, just as you've done for years. Confused? We'll explain. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Nokia will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based Symbian and make its
phone operating-system software royalty-free. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Location intelligence vendor adds another BI suite integration to take geospatial analysis mainstream. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The deal to buy Skywire Software may mark a new phase in Oracle's ongoing competition with SAP to become the world's largest applications vendor. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Windows Vista. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The cell phone maker is buying the remaining shares of Symbian for $410 million and plans to open source the mobile operating system. -- read full article
NewsFactor - With many business and individual PC users rejecting Windows Vista, Microsoft took an unprecedented step this week by promising support for Windows XP for a full 13 years. That is three years longer than it has allowed for previous Windows operating systems.
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker
Symbian and make its software royalty-free to other phone
makers, in response to new rivals such as Google Inc .
