Clint Boulton

HP and Oracle stepped up their commitment to sell more HP Integrity servers running Oracle software. Oracle said that its E-Business Suite, improved by the company’s purchases of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, will run on HP Integrity servers going forward. Oracle’s Database, Application server and Enterprise Manager already run on the Integrity machines. The move […]

Gateway agreed to pay HP $47 million to settle patent-infringement lawsuits, and the two companies will cross-license each other’s patent portfolios for seven years. Gateway, which has struggled in a lagging PC market, will pay HP $25 million within seven business days following the signing of a settlement and cross-license agreement. The remaining $22 million […]

Oracle today unveiled Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a new standalone product designed to help enterprise customers find specific information without compromising corporate security. The software, which costs $30,000 per server CPU, lets users search databases, applications, files, content repositories, HTTP servers, e-mails and portals. The product’s browser-based user interfaces allow users to do traditional keyword […]

BEA Systems today said it has acquired Fuego for $87.5 million in cash, adding one of the last standalone players in the business process management (BPM) software market for coordinating Web services with processes. Fuego’s BPM portfolio stands to be a key weapon for BEA in its fight for SOA supremacy versus Oracle, IBM and […]

Intel today pledged to put up $300 million to build a semiconductor manufacturing and test plant in Ho Chi Minh City, part of the company’s quest to expand its operations in overseas. The project, which will begin immediately, is something of a milestone: The plant is the first move by a chipmaker in Vietnam. “We […]

Users waiting for Oracle to integrate and build upon its SleepyCat open source database have another free option. The company has taken its Database 10g Express Edition (XE), a stripped-down, free version of its flagship database software, to general availability. XE is exiting beta mode, where it received strong global support from several hundred thousand […]

In its quest to stem the tide of Linux, Microsoft is leaving nothing to chance with regard to meeting different PC users’ needs. The company today said it is preparing six versions of its Windows Vista operating system for mass consumption in the second half of this year. The forthcoming load of operating systems include […]

When legal eagles ask for specific documents, corporations need to retrieve those files in a fast fashion, thanks to litigation retention requirements. Seeking to address the pain points associated with respond for legal requests for information, EMC today unveiled a bundle of storage hardware, content management software and services to help businesses pinpoint electronic files. […]

Computer users’ identity information is managed online today by several different data collection agencies. But imagine the freedom people would feel changing their address with one keystroke? Microsoft is working on such technology with its InfoCard identity metasystem. Now IBM, Novell and startup Parity Communications are joining the Eclipse open software foundation and Harvard Law […]

Reporter’s Notebook: As part of my daily coverage, I’ve watched IBM make a lot of purchases on the software side of their broad business over the last few years. Viewed as one-offs, the buys didn’t seem to come together. IBM nabbed Endeca and iPhrase for enterprise search technologies. The Ascential Software buy was one of […]

Imagine trying to pull a single file from several repositories filled with millions. To make it even more daunting, let’s say those repositories were constructed from different pieces of software that can’t necessarily communicate with each other. IBM is fusing several pieces of software from several recent acquisitions to tackle this challenge, led by Steve […]

Sun Microsystems today agreed to acquire Aduva, which makes software that automates and manages the deployment of patches to Solaris and Linux servers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aduva makes OnStage, a software application that runs an active dependency service for Solaris and Linux servers so that systems administrators don’t have to […]