Clint Boulton

While the landscape of Web services management players has thinned out in the last year, some of the stronger vendors are busy fine-tuning their platforms by adding even greater degrees of governance. AmberPoint is one of those companies. The Oakland, Calif. maker of software that aims to moderate the communication of multiple Web services applications […]

IBM has been asked to build a system capable of predicting climate changes 300 years into the future. A team of 12 engineers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) has asked IBM for a supercomputer that will help researchers to gage changes to the Earth’s surface, atmosphere and oceans to gain insight into […]

In a widely expected move, PeopleSoft Monday said its board of directors voted unanimously to recommend that its stockholders reject Oracle’s latest offer to purchase the company for $26 per share. In shooting down the offer, an 8.8. percent premium that would total $9.4 billion, the Pleasanton, Calif. applications maker opens itself up for fire […]

Corel has ditched the Web services market by agreeing to sell its XMetal division to technology consultant Blast Radius for an undisclosed sum. Ottawa, Canada’s Corel created XMetal to simplify the creation of XML applications for businesses. The authoring product is geared to compete with Microsoft’s InfoPath and Adobe’s Document server. According to a company […]

Veritas Software topped off the refresh of its backup and recovery software line Monday by issuing Veritas NetBackup 5.0 Server for mid-size organizations and remote offices. Previously called Veritas NetBackup Business Server, the new software package is part of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s utility computing strategy of tailoring software for customers’ computing resources, as […]

EMC is unveiling a raft of new hardware systems and software enhancements spanning its entire product family, showcasing a more unified approach to managing and storing data than it has in the past. EMC Vice President of Marketing Chuck Hollis said the company decided to pull the covers off of the new products, which span […]

Oracle’s revised $26 per share offer for rival PeopleSoft makes it difficult for investors to turn down, and could lead to a divestiture of J.D. Edwards should the deal meet regulatory approval, an analyst at a research firm said this week. Mike Dominy, analyst with the Business Applications & Commerce practice at The Yankee Group, […]

A specification for recycling old software code for new tasks and projects is gradually making its way toward becoming a standard, according to an engineer at IBM’s Rational software development tools division. Grant Larsen, model driven development strategist, said the Re-usable Asset Specification (RAS) is geared to take bits and pieces of software code and […]

An electronic business standards group has formed a committee to create a Web services standard that will improve the sharing of secure, trustworthy XML documents over several applications and domains. The new OASIS XRI Data Interchange (XDI) committee, which includes chip maker AMD , said the new identity management spec will make it possible for […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday moved to fill what analysts said were major gaps in its management software strategy by inking definitive agreements to acquire automation technology companies Novadigm and Consera Software. Palo Alto, Calif.’s HP has offered to buy Novadigm for pay $6.10 in cash for each outstanding share of Novadigm common stock, making the deal for […]

Oracle has ratcheted up its pressure on rival applications maker PeopleSoft by raising its cash buyout offer to $9.4 billion. The move comes as regulatory investigations to determine whether the merger would violate antitrust laws hurtle toward a conclusion. The Redwood Shores, Calif., software maker’s new $26 per share offer is an 18.8 percent premium […]

A new consortium including chipmaker Intel and phone maker Nokia has whipped up a licensing system for ensuring the delivery of digital content to such gadgets as Web-enabled mobile phones and handheld computers. The Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Content Management License Administrator (CMLA) group wrote the CMLA spec to make sure content conforms to the Open […]