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InterSystems Corp. announced that Greensboro Radiology has chosen InterSystems Ensemble software as its enterprise-wide integration platform. Greensboro Radiology is a premier provider of medical diagnostic imaging services and interventional radiology practices in inpatient and outpatient settings. www.intersystems.com

Embarcadero Technologies, a privately-held company of Thomas Cressey Bravo, has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Borland Software Corp. to acquire its CodeGear division, which offers high-productivity development tools for software developers. The acquisition makes Embarcadero the world's largest, independent software provider offering an integrated portfolio to design, develop, manage and optimize heterogeneous applications and their databases, Embarcadero stated. www.embarcadero.com

Sybase, a provider of enterprise infrastructure, mobile software and mobile services, and ANTs software, a leader in compatible, high-performance SQL data management systems, have entered into a partnership to develop a version of the ANTs Compatibility Server aimed at accelerating the migration to Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise database and Sybase IQ analytics server. In connection with the partnership agreement, Sybase will license certain ANTs technology. www.sybase.com and www.ants.com

db4objects, creator of a leading open source object database, has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft’s LINQ. According to the company, db4o is the first object-oriented databases in the industry to support this new set of extensions to Microsoft’s .NET Framework. With the new support, developers are free to choose an object oriented-optimized engine without having to change the API or compromise performance. www.db4o.com

At EMC World, ParAccel, a provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, announced a pilot program to develop with EMC a scalable analytic appliance with advanced availability, recoverability and manageability features. The Scalable Analytic Appliance will be based on ParAccel’s columnar, compressed, massively parallel relational database engine combined with enterprise-class managed storage infrastructure and industry standard servers such as those available from Sun, IBM, HP and Dell. www.paraccel.com

Tidal Software, a provider of application scheduling and performance management software, announced that Wilton Re Services is standardizing on Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. The solution will provide a complete enterprise view of business process performance as well as automate the many IT processes necessary for the company to better leverage virtualization.  www.tidalsoftware.com

Boomi, a leader in providing on-demand integration, and StrikeIron, which provides innovative solutions for delivering data over the Internet, have inked a partnership to enable the seamless integration of StrikeIron’s Marketplace Web services into the Boomi on Demand SaaS integration platform. www.boomi.com and www.strikeiron.com

Oco, a software-as-a-service provider of business intelligence and data integration solutions, announced an expanded partnership with the Casual Male Retail Group. Oco will support the retailer's global expansion by implementing its on-demand BI solution in Casual Male's direct business throughout Europe.  www.oco-inc.com

Siperian, a provider of master data management solutions, and Informatica Corp., an independent provider of data integration solutions announced that Siperian has joined INFORM, Informatica's worldwide partner program.  www.siperian.com and www.informatica.com