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Just what do customers think of Windows 10 a year into its lifespan?

If one thing is true about Windows 10, it's that there is much to both love and hate. While much of the channel is focused...

Here’s how much Windows 10 will cost you if you don’t upgrade by Friday

In case you forgot - or, more precisely, in case you happen to be a Windows 7 or 8 PC user who somehow hasn't...

Oracle buys cloud vendor NetSuite for $9.3 billion

Redwood Shores, Calif. enterprise software vendor Oracle Corp. is acquiring the cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software firm NetSuite Inc. for $9.3 billion in...

Nearly one in four pieces of software installed in Canada last year was unlicensed: Report

Ever wonder about the impact of software piracy in an age of Software-as-a-Service? Despite efforts to curb the practice, using unlicensed software is still common. A...

Red Hat announces 2016 Women in Open Source award winners

Red Hat has chosen Jessica McKellar from Dropbox and Preeti Murthy, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon as the winners of the 2016 annual Women in...

Oracle unveils cloud application registration and publishing program for ISVs

Oracle wants to help sell partner cloud applications. The software giant's PartnerNetwork (OPN) has unveiled the Oracle Cloud Platform Ready, a program that allows ISVs to...

OpenText looks to expand capabilities through another HP acquisition

As HP Inc. continues its strategy of divesting of some assets following the split into two separate entities, OpenText Corp. continues to be the...

Dell sells its software business to Silicon Valley investment firms

The software arm of Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant Dell Inc. is being acquired by New York City-based hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. and San...

SAS Canada hires former Microsoft Canada head of marketing

Software company SAS Canada has hired Andrew Dixon as the new vice president of marketing for Canada and Latin America. Prior to joining SAS Canada, Dixon...

SAP CEO backs Azure and wants to bring more empathy to business

ORLANDO - Listen up enterprises: SAP‘s Bill McDermott wants to “keep it real” with you when it comes to the changing needs of IT. In fact,...

Google outlines plans to end Flash by 2017

It looks like it's becoming increasingly easy to predict a time of death for Flash. Google has publicly released a deprecation plan whereby the Adobe...

Top SAP Canada partner acquires American solution provider

Contax has confirmed the acquisition of Houston-based Onshore Partners, Inc. a technology consultant that specializing in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) software and...

Look who’s getting into the big data business

Plantronics is an audio communications headset vendor that focuses on commercial markets such as call centres and consumer electronics. The company based in Santa...

Digital intelligence vendor makes healthcare cool

As the Internet of Things trend continues to gain momentum in the marketplace; very few Canadian solution providers have specialized in this area. Toronto-based ThoughtWire Corp.'s...

Corel incorporates user requests into latest WordPerfect Office update

Ottawa, Ont.-based Corel Corp. has released the latest version of its WordPerfect Office suite, adding several user-requested features to the 1990s office staple, the...

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