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Sybase has reported a 2% increase in net income to $34.7m for the third quarter 2008, compared to $34.1m in the year-ago quarter, on revenue up 11% at $284m. The growth was attributed to higher revenue from core database products and messaging services.

Web content delivery company Akamai has agreed to acquire targeted-advertising company Acerno for $95m.

VMware has reported a 29% increase in net income to $83m for the third quarter 2008, compared to $65m in the year-ago quarter, on revenue up 32% at $472m.

REI systems has been awarded a $225m six-year subcontract from IBM for enterprise architecture modernization at the US Federal Emergency management Agency, FEMA.

OPTUS'S consumer division managing director, Warren Hardy, is leaving after 16 years of service to pursue other opportunities.

TecCom has chosen NeoMedia’s NeoReader 2D barcode scanning solution to launch its new TecIdentify product.

WITHIN four years, most Australians will be able to drive an electric car and recharge it at special plug-in points around their homes.

ANZ Bank has incurred $218 million in organisational transformation costs and a spike in compliance costs due to higher staffing needs.

HEWLETT-PACKARD has appointed one its regional executives to run the Australian operations of its subsidiary EDS.

Is Windows Vista really skippable? As organizations weigh what to do with Windows XP OS upgrades, the thought of leapfrogging the much-maligned Vista often comes to mind. But be warned, says a recent report from research firm Gartner: Bypassing Vista and migrating directly from XP to the next release, Windows 7, could be a dicey proposition.The report, written by Gartner analyst Michael Silver, states that most organizations should not skip Windows Vista entirely and should install Vista on new PCs as they are deployed, with the main reason being that ISVs don't support old versions of Windows long enough, or new versions of Windows soon enough.[ Find out why Randall C. Kennedy suddenly "likes" Vista (and surfing) in InfoWorld's Enterprise Desktop blog. ]Also, Silver suggests in the report, Windows 7 is not likely not to arrive on time."What many enterprises don't realize from their initial analyses is that the next version of Windows may be delivered later tha