Stories about: JD Edwards

Oracle will fix a number of products, including the Oracle Database, Application Server, and E-Business Suite, next week as it releases its quarterly batch of security patches.

The goal of ERP isn't simply to provide a unified application interface for every aspect of a company's business process -- it also tries to include the inherent data-mining capabilities that go along with it. But while JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, and others have invested significant resources in building ERP software that's customizable enough for any business, these companies have also forced the price of the software to heights many businesses just can't afford.

Listen to Oracle president Charles Phillips talk about the PeopleSoft acquisition and it sounds like the company is engaged in a community service rather than a hostile takeover bid.

Melbourne-based Mid-Comp International has adopted an open-source approach to its Java-based Odyssey distribution and accounting product, but does not expect users to fiddle with the core software on a regular basis.

A prominent New Zealand Linux site is to ditch the open source operating system over the next 12 to 18 months, but not for reasons of performance.

Fueled by growing business deployment of Linux in the financial services market, software and services vendor J.D. Edwards & Co. will release a Linux-ported version of its customer relationship management (CRM) application by the end of the year.