Clint Boulton

Two weeks after expanding its lawsuit against Oracle , PeopleSoft Wednesday yielded evidence to support its complaints by unveiling internal e-mails from Oracle employees that suggest they were aware of just how the company’s actions were hurting PeopleSoft. The revelation is the latest in a pernicious takeover battle between two enterprise application rivals. Redwood Shores, […]

Dell gained a seasoned leader in its bid to battle rivals IBM and HP for market share in the data storage space Tuesday when it announced Darren Thomas, formerly of a failed storage start-up and Compaq, to steer its storage division. Officially, Thomas will serve as vice president and general manager of Dell’s storage line […]

Executives from Sun Microsystems conducted a conference call Tuesday to offer the public a taste of what will be unveiled next month at its SunNetwork 2003 Conference with regard to its solutions and reference architectures for its Orion and N1 initiatives. Clark Masters, executive vice president of Sun’s Enterprise Systems Products Group, and Marge Breya, […]

Enterprise applications maker Siebel Systems settled a class-action lawsuit Tuesday for $900,000 and took steps to make sure it doesn’t put itself, or shareholders, into like situations with the creation of corporate governance initiatives to provide better guidance to the public. Siebel decided to adopt new governance measures upon settling with the Teachers’ Retirement System […]

Computer Associates (CA) said it would issue stock worth $144 million in order to settle the three class-action shareholder lawsuits that hit the company over accusations of accounting improprieties. The Islandia, N.Y., software company said it would issue 5.7 million shares of stock to the plaintiffs, who filed suit over allegations of shady accounting practices […]

Electronic business standards group RosettaNet Monday has tapped Bill White chairman of the organization’s executive board. The new skipper will guide RosettaNet’s cadre of managing boards, which includes Electronic Components (EC), Information Technology (IT), Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) and Solution Provider (SP) and Telecommunications Industry Council (TC). White replaces Intel’s Colin Evans, who has completed his […]

As more companies try to expand the use of Linux as an alternative to proprietary operating systems, SGI Monday pledged to offer a 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor system running Linux technology from SuSE Linux. Mountain View, Calif.’s, SGI plans to bundle SuSE’s Linux Enterprise Server 8 on its high-end Altix 3000 servers and superclusters. […]

Storage infrastructure provider McData struck a blow against rivals Brocade Communications and Cisco Systems Monday by vowing to purchase two privately-held storage networking companies — Nishan Systems and Sanera Systems — for a total of $185 million in cash. The purchases should go a long way in helping Broomfield, Colo.’s McData cement its storage networking […]

Gateway next Tuesday will unveil new rack storage systems and a tape drive to remind enterprise customers it still cares for their businesses despite the company’s rejiggered focus on consumer electronics. The Poway, Calif. company, yearning to move out from under the shadow of a sluggish PC market and to gain better footing in the […]

A major figure on the Internet piracy landscape pleaded guilty in a district court Thursday to distributing music, software and gaming software in violation of copyright infringement laws. Mark Shumaker, 21, of Orlando, Florida, and a former leader of the notorious Internet music piracy group Apocalypse Crew, pleaded guilty before the Virginia United States District […]

IBM next week will celebrate the six-month anniversary of its $2.1 billion purchase of applications tools maker Rational Software with a user conference geared to update software developers on its progress since joining Big Blue. The Rational User Conference 2003 in Orlando, Fla. will serve as the launching pad for more refined strategic direction on […]

A group spearheading one of the most integral components of Web services announced the third version of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol, which when it is finally finished may serve as a global registry to help locate business partners. The release of UDDI V.3 beta nodes by the Universal Description, Discovery, and […]