Colin C. Haley

It wasn’t supposed to end this way for Aprisma Management Technologies. The Portsmouth, N.H., maker of applications and system management software, and Enterasys Networks subsidiary, had planned to spin out and go public. But as the economy languished and its parent became mired in an accounting scandal, securing its own ticker symbol became impossible. So, […]

For 18 months, analysts and economists have debated the severity of the ongoing tech slump (recession, depression, let’s call the whole thing off). But whatever it’s called, software developers and equipment sellers have heard the same maddening refrain from Corporate America: “We like your product, we see how it could help us, but we’re not […]

Data storage leader EMC and Internet communications specialist Critical Path will partner to provide telecom carriers and large companies advanced messaging systems. The offering combines with EMC’s storage hardware and software with Critical Path’s messaging and identity management technology. It also includes tools and methodologies to help users convert from other messaging systems. The companies […]

If “The Graduate” were filmed today, the one-word advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character just might be “bio-tech.” That’s because in an otherwise moribund market, companies mapping the human genome or analyzing clinical data to develop drugs for AIDS, diabetes and cancer are among the few making large hardware and software buys. Cognizant of this, […]

Genuity has made a $100 million acquisition, but it didn’t gain another company, patented technology and new production plant. Instead, it purchased something perhaps more valuable — time. The Woburn, Mass., provider of Internet protocol networking services wrote checks to eight lenders for a two-week “standstill agreement” that will hopefully allow it to revise its […]

The black rocket is sputtering. Genuity , a Woburn, Mass.,provider of Internet services faced with mounting debt, a limping economy and the loss of its biggest backer, faces a battle for survival. Its best hope is to find another deep-pocketed telecom hungry for new corporate clients. But given the sector meltdown, such guardian angels are […]

Onetime rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard will share certain application programming interfaces , a move allowing engineers to develop software capable of managing each other’s storage systems. “Along with our companies’ combined efforts to further development of open industry standards — such as CIM and Bluefin — technology exchanges such as this enable our mutual customers […]

Mike Pehl has had a good run since arriving the United States from his native Germany in the mid-1980’s. He was on the ground floor of enterprise software giant SAP’s U.S. subsidiary, ran his own consulting business (later sold to Deloitte & Touche), and led Web design shops iCube and Razorfish at the tail of […]

After months of divesting, CMGI , is investing again. The Andover, Mass., Internet operating company this morning is buying iLogistix, a Fremont Calif., supply chain management specialist for $41 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The deal for iLogistix, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, is expected to close at month’s […]

Internet investor CMGI has pulled its offer to buy Engage and is distancing itself from the troubled online ad technology firm. “Senior management of Engage and CMGI could not reach a consensus as to the execution of the business strategy for Engage,” CMGI CFO Thomas Oberdorf said in a statement issued late Friday. A spokesman […]

Until recently, Brian Young, CIO of Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS), felt like MacGyver, the title character in the ’80s TV series who averted disaster using only his wits and a roll of duct tape. Young and his staff (all 12 of them) constantly jury-rigged a patchwork network that crashed with such regularity, faculty, […]

When a baseball team is slumping, the manager often substitutes promising, unproven players for experienced, underperforming ones to do something, anything, to become a winner again. In a sense, that’s what Sycamore Networks this week. The Chelmsford, Mass., maker of optical networking equipment benched long-haul transport products (SN 8000, SN 10000), which move data through […]