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06-Oct-2005

'Google, Sun challenge Microsoft's Office software (Seattle Times)
Google Inc. took a step toward challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of computer Software with the announcement Tuesday of a collaboration agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc.

'Spescom Software wins $750K Constellation Energy contract (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Spescom Software Inc (OTC: SPCO.OB, News) announced Thursday that Constellation Energy awarded the company a $750K contract to supply and implement of a corrective action application based on the eB platform throughout its nuclear plants.

'Software company Cognos to spend up to US$100M in share buyback (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
OTTAWA (CP) - Software producer Cognos Inc. said Thursday it will spend up to $100 million US in a share buyback program.

'Saba Software to acquire Centra for $60M (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Saba Software Inc. is acquiring Centra Software Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $60 million.

'Saba to Acquire Centra Software in Deal (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saba Software Inc., which develops software to track online employee-learning programs, said Thursday it has agreed to acquire corporate-training software company Centra Software Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth about $60 million.

'Kaspersky Issues Fix for Security-Software Flaw (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)
Security technology provider Kaspersky Lab today issued a product update designed to fix a serious flaw, discovered last week, in the company's antivirus software.

'Microsoft unveils design software (Seattle Times)
Microsoft unveiled three products for designing graphics and layout in software programs and Web pages to compete with Adobe Systems and...

'Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Future of open-source Software debated at LinuxWorld conference.

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