This month marks Advanced Visual Systems Inc.’s eighteenth year of operations. The Boston-area company, which has provided software and solutions to over 2,000 customers and an estimated 10 million end-users, was one of the first to commercialize data visualization technology and now offers a lineup of six branded products that serve the diverse needs of global corporations, software makers, researchers and engineers.

David M. Murray, CEO, stated, “With nearly two decades of experience providing software and solutions to a long list of leading global corporations, AVS understands what all types of decision-makers need to succeed. Our early customers were software developers and researchers working on smaller, specialized projects. But for the past decade, our customers are more frequently executives trying to squeeze every drop of efficiency out of their business — and they are using data visualization as a key component of

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Tuesday August 18, 2009

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Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software and SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software, today announced the global expansion of its proven tax and regulatory update service. Tax and regulatory updates from Rimini Street, already used and trusted by hundreds of clients around the world to accurately process billions of dollars of transactions, are a key component of Rimini Street’s award-winning, third-party support program. With this expanded coverage, Rimini Street will provide mission-critical tax and regulatory updates for more than one hundred countries across all of its supported SAP

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Oracle Corp. (ORCL) offered to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) for more than $7 billion in a surprise move on Monday after rival IBM (IBM) dropped its pursuit of the struggling server maker.

The $9.50 per-share bid, including cash and debt, values the Santa Clara, California-based company at $7.4 billion and offers a 42% premium to Sun's Friday closing price. Sun's board, which had turned down IBM's offer of $9.40 a share, unanimously approved the Oracle deal.

The acquisition will bring Oracle Sun's signature Java technology and the Solaris operating system software. The two platforms are already widely used by key Oracle products. Oracle can now diversify more into the storage and computer hardware space from its original database foothold to compete directly with giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).

Oracle's big-ticket acquisition spree since 2005 made it the world's

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Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) said today that it is planning to buy Tidal Software Inc. for about $105 million in cash and incentives.

Tidal Software, a privately held company, develops management software for applications such as SAP, Java, Peoplesoft, and Microsoft's. With this acquisition, the company aims to enhance its range of products and services for corporate data centers.

Cisco said that the deal is expected to close in the quarter ending in July.

Shares of the Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold") company gained a little over 4% today on volume of about 42 million. The company's average volume is more than 58 million.

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Oracle Corp (ORCL) soared 8% on heavy volume a day after the software maker posted a 19% jump in quarterly profit, impressive results in a tough environment. Analysts had expected the company's business management applications PeopleSoft and Siebel to suffer in the ongoing credit crunch. Oracle's first-quarter income increased to 29 cents a share before acquisition-related expenses, beating consensus estimates by 11.54%.

Company President Safra Catz said, "If a customer is buying, they're much more likely to be buying from us." After the results, analysts said Oracle is gaining market share at the cost of peers like Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM).

This stock received another boost this morning along with other tech stocks as the Federal government sought to address the on-going credit crisis. Analysts forecast earnings of $1.46 a share for fiscal 2009. However, in spite of stellar results in a seasonally weak

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