Clint Boulton

Computer hard drive manufacturer Western Digital said it has succeeded in its bid to acquire the assets of bankrupt hard drive parts maker Read-Rite for $95.4 million in cash. A bankruptcy court presiding over the Read-Rite assets approved the sale including its wafer fabrication operation in Fremont, Calif., as well as an option to buy […]

PeopleSoft late Wednesday revealed preliminary proration factors for the shares of J.D. Edwards common stock it purchased last week. The news is the latest word out of PeopleSoft since the company announced last Friday that it had successfully closed its purchase of the Denver-based mid-market applications vendor, making it the No. 2 player in a […]

The business software space is still shrinking. For the second time in less than a week, the business intelligence software sector contracted as Hyperion Wednesday purchased rival Brio Software for $142 million in stock. Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Hyperion will issue a combination of 0.109 of a share of Hyperion common stock and $0.363 for each share […]

A new report from research group Gartner has determined that although the progress of Web services has been curtailed by a sluggish economy, the projects based on such services retain a steady pulse. Web services is the practice defined as a means of enabling applications to communicate data without intimate knowledge of each other’s IT […]

Oracle is following rules and regulations. The Redwood Shores, Calif. company Wednesday said it has put the finishing touches on improvements to its entire enterprise applications suite, which it said emphasizes regulations compliance across several industries. The software maker unveiled Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.9, which features more than 900 enhancements, including new features to manage […]

With confusion swirling around the enterprise applications space caused by Oracle and PeopleSoft’s battle for the No. 2 slot, Siebel Systems showed that it felt the reverberations caused by that conflict Tuesday by announcing a 67 percent drop in second-quarter earnings and the termination of about 490 employees. The San Mateo, Calif. based software maker […]

Web services continue to evolve as companies seek to treat what industry experts maintain is a serious obstacle to massive adoption of the software that would link applications together — management of those services to ensure they perform the business tasks they are instructed to do. Mountain View, Calif.’s Actional, whose specialty is Web services […]

Storability Software has purchased the assets of ProvisionSoft’s resource management software application, continuing the consolidation trend in the industry while affirming the sector’s interest in enterprise management software. Storability, a provider of storage resource management software, bought the DynamicIT line of the former start-up for an undisclosed amount. The Southborough, Mass.-based outfit said the buy […]

The Web services movement has garnered plenty of hype over the last few years, but the method for helping applications talk to one another and perform computing tasks has also opened up other avenues of software development. As with any other niche in the crowded software sector, it’s important to have products that can step […]

Consistent with what has quickly become an industry-wide trend to give customers more control over the computing resources they need, storage systems provider EMC Monday unveiled a new billing tool for customers to buy storage when they require it. Called OpenScale, the Hopkinton, Mass. company has quietly been using the capacity-on-demand feature for quite some […]

IBM Monday unveiled a new grid computing software feature to its WebSphere application server that automatically monitors application workloads and routes traffic from one server to another in order to balance their workloads. In what the Armonk, N.Y. company has described as a “traffic cop-like” product, the feature allows a cluster consisting of many servers […]

PeopleSoft Friday said it has closed its $1.8 billion acquisition of J.D. Edwards, making Oracle’s takeover bid for PeopleSoft more difficult to pursue. The Pleasanton, Calif. software maker said it has purchased roughly 110 million shares, or 88 percent of the outstanding shares of Denver’s J.D. Edwards. PeopleSoft expects to acquire the remaining shares of […]