ARMONK, NY - January 30, 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server, new software that allows businesses to centrally manage customer, product, and account data for use enterprise-wide.

Master data is the information upon which organizations’ operations and critical business decisions are based. Many businesses today are faced with master data that is distributed across multiple front and back-office systems and cannot be shared enterprise-wide. This problem, which costs businesses millions of dollars in missed revenues and operational inefficiencies, is driving companies to seek more flexibility in how they maintain and use master data as a means of competing and capitalizing on emerging business opportunities.

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - 28 Jan 2008: As another milestone for Oracle’s “Applications Unlimited” program, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business requirements. Relying on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97, customers may also adopt current advancements in Oracle® Enterprise Linux and many components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

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LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL. - January 21, 2008: Today, before 7,000 customers and partners at the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced plans to deliver their first joint software product codenamed “Atlantic” that will integrate IBM Lotus Notes software with SAP Business Suite. The combined efforts to create “Atlantic” will result in a new style of applications that present information and data in the context of users familiar with the Lotus Notes desktop. This will make it easier for users to do their jobs and greatly enhance the return on investment that companies have made in their SAP applications.

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EDISON, NJ - January 15, 2008: EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company, today announced the release of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2 for the Mac OS X operating system. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is an enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs many applications written for Oracle unchanged. Built on Postgres, the world’s most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server provides the scalability, reliablility and performance necessary for mission-critical applications. More information and free downloads of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server are available at www.enterprisedb.com.

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NASHUA, NH - January 2, 2008: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has emerged as a major presence in the enterprise content management (ECM) market, improving office collaboration and streamlining workflows by instantly connecting office professionals to the information they need.

But the electronic workflows are exposing the problems many companies have with an overload of paper. These organizations are finding that many times they are operating two business processes - one for electronic data with Microsoft SharePoint and another with paper-based manual processes.

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BARCELONA, Nov. 26, 2007: HP today announced new software and services to help businesses transform IT operations and automate the full lifecycle of managing business services.

The company introduced HP Automated Operations 1.0, an integrated set of products that automates IT operations across all technology and organizational domains. This eliminates labor-intensive, ad hoc and error-prone manual processes and, in turn, helps IT organizations dramatically lower the day-to-day cost of operations.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 30, 2007: HP today announced an expanded portfolio of offerings that help enterprise customers modernize and manage their SAP® application environments.

The latest services from HP help customers consolidate, migrate and optimize their SAP application infrastructure; upgrade to the latest version of SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning); and, establish a roadmap that leverages enterprise SOA (service-oriented architecture) to innovate future business processes.

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ARMONK, NY - 29 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today new software and services to help ensure clients’ success in creating a healthy IT environment based on a service oriented architecture (SOA).

Dubbed the “IBM SOA Healthcheck,” these new IBM services and software will help clients with SOA health issues resulting from performance issues, which could be the result of partnering with inexperienced or proprietary information technology (IT) vendors. The healthchecks cover six common areas that can impact the success of an SOA strategy, including application reuse, governance, security, middleware, and workload and service management.

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BOEBLINGEN, GERMANY - 19 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the z/VSE mainframe operating system is being updated to help address customer needs for scalability, security and integration. z/VSE V4.2 is designed to support growing mainframe applications and drive stronger investment protection.

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 16 Oct 2007: Oracle and HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that they have teamed to deliver complete software, hardware and service solutions tailored to midsize companies. These new offerings are comprised of unique combinations of Oracle® Accelerate solutions and HP reference configurations and are designed to offer midsize companies a proven, easy-to-own solution that enables them to achieve faster time-to-value. HP and Oracle will promote this new offering by launching a global tour of customer-focused events. HP reference configurations for Oracle are guidelines for HP servers, storage and software that are based on joint HP and Oracle engineering expertise and best practices. The HP-approved configurations, which support midsize company user counts of 25, 50, 100 or 200, can save customers valuable configuration time and provide guidance when deploying Oracle on HP hardware.

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