Informatica: The last enterprise software indie?

With mergers-and-acquisitions fever sweeping the enterprise-software space, is Informatica destined to be the last indie standing? And when does cussed independence become less appealing than the money train?

Sun advances file-sharing with Windows

The goal is to implement Common Internet File System on both the client and server sides to help with the interoperability effort, Sun says.

Microsoft wading through 3,522 comments on Open XML standards bid

The software vendor has started responding to several thousand objections and suggestions about its proposal to have the Office Open XML file format certified as an ISO standard.

Microsoft, unlike Oracle, embraces third-party virtualization platforms

While Oracle is apparently looking to push customers toward its new virtualization platform, Microsoft appears to be doing just the opposite.