Clint Boulton

While many research firms have been advising clients to steer clear of purchasing enterprise applications since the Oracle/PeopleSoft hostile bid struggle led them into a minefield of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), one research firm has said customers should consider striking deals while the iron is hot. It is true some customers remain frozen with […]

When folks think of storage software, often times the first names that come to mind might be Veritas, HP, IBM, or even EMC these days. But Microsoft? Well, it’s true. The Redmond, Wash. software giant has been gaining momentum in a niche of the storage software market known as NAS, or network-attached storage. NAS is […]

Oracle Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips placed himself on the hot seat Thursday in the first of what the company said will be series of “town hall” meetings in which PeopleSoft customers can drill various Oracle executives about its intentions when and if it succeeds in acquiring its enterprise applications rival. If the inaugural town […]

What sales slump? Storage systems provider EMC on Wednesday reported a profit for the second quarter of $82 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $1 million for the second quarter of 2002 with no earnings per share. Analysts were generally expecting earnings per share of 3 cents. The Hopkinton, […]

Clear Methods, a startup that has created a language and runtime engine that can power XML as an alternative to Java or .NET in some instances, has released the latest version of its Steam Engine — Version 3.10. The Cambridge, Mass. firm said the new iteration of Steam features tighter database integration, moves XML to […]

Computer Associates International and Sony have agreed to bundle their complementary storage products in order to attack mid-range and enterprise storage markets where IBM, Veritas and many others compete. Islandia, N.Y.’s CA said it would bundle its BrightStor storage management line with Sony’s PetaSite and StorStation storage systems for the North American, European, Japanese and […]

One day after its blockbuster purchase bid for paid search provider Overture, Yahoo! Tuesday sought to improve its portal productivity suite by hooking up with Oracle to use its application server to deliver content to more people. Redwood Shores, Calif.’s Oracle, in conjunction with real-time information management provider Moreover Technologies, will help to bring external […]

Web services tools offered by Microsoft are about to get a little safer to use. The Redmond, Wash. software maker Tuesday issued a preview of the next version of developer tools to give Visual Studio .NET developers support for designing and building advanced Web services. Web services are the foundations on which many software companies […]

IBM and Cisco deepened their longstanding storage networking pact Tuesday when Big Blue agreed to include the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Storage Services module in its MDS 9000 storage area networking (SAN) directors and fabric switches. With the deal, for which financial terms will not be made public, SANS may be connected to remote SANs […]

The U.S. Department of Justice Monday terminated the required waiting period that hung over PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards with regard to the companies’ planned merger, clearing the path for PeopleSoft to purchase J.D. Edwards as planned. Not to be outdone, Oracle extended its $6.3 billion tender offer for PeopleSoft to August 15 from this Friday. […]

Computer Associates (CA) Monday announced the latest piece of its nascent on-demand computing strategy, a technology its calling Sonar that can detect and map IT assets across an enterprise and map them to business processes. The Islandia, N.Y. company, who like rivals Veritas , IBM and HP , is focusing on a type of computing […]

In the wake of Oracle’s $6.3 billion hostile takeover attempt of enterprise applications vendor PeopleSoft , analysts with Gartner are doubtful that a “white knight” will step in with an alternative to Oracle’s bid. The research group said Friday that the current positions of other vendors in the infrastructure and application markets, as well as […]