Erin Joyce

Collaboration is finally becoming a reality in the enterprise, thanks to the growth of wikis outside of consumer groups and applications. Finally, one of the early promises of the Web is getting close. As internetnews.com reported recently, Gartner predicts that half of all U.S. companies will be wiki people within three years. This stat, in […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Reporter’s Notebook: We came here from all over the globe, picked up our OracleWorld bags, and by night became a swarm of 42,000 attendees fanning out across the city by the Bay. If you’ve ever wondered just how huge an installed base Oracle has to sell, wine and dine to, look no […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, grid computing  basked in the buzzword glow of major technology conferences. This year, virtualization surged ahead of “Web 2.0” and “user-generated content” as the buzziest of buzzwords at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. The term , as wide as it is, floated out of keynote presentations, into discussions about grid computing, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — John Chambers is a globe-trotting CEO with a relentless schedule. Good thing the Cisco head honcho can tele-presence his way into some of those meetings crowding his schedule, using “quad play” messaging with unified voice, video on demand, collaboration and mobility. Plus, it’s good business to actually live out the mantra he […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard’s CEO Mark Hurd brought his no-nonsense style to Oracle’s Open World conference here and laid out more details to streamline companies’ IT systems –- and its own. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to get better,” Hurd said. “We’re actually trying to shrink our matrices, shrink our layers,” and […]

A virtual world of virtualization is taking hold of the IT industry. More than 40 years after IBM pioneered virtualization technology by partitioning mainframes, every major sector of the industry is jumping into the fray. And as with many technologies that arrive as new versions of decades-old innovations, virtualization has hit an inflection point. At […]

Helped by sales within key software business lines such as WebSphere and Tivoli, IBM’s  third quarter profit jumped 46.5 percent to $2.2 billion, (or $1.45 per diluted share). Big Blue’s net income during the third quarter of last year was $1.5 billion (94 cents per share). Acquisitions of software tools makers during the quarter helped, […]

NEW YORK — Computing enthusiasts like to say that the computer gaming crowd is what really helped get 64-bit computing and multi-core processors into the business world at a faster rate. AMD, for example, pushed onward with its 64-bit and dual-core chipset products for desktops and laptops to answer the gamers’ demands for more processing […]

Fewer than two months after Sprint Nextel’s COO Len Lauer exited the company, its executive board chairman, Tim Donahue, is stepping down. Sprint Nextel  said Donahue’s retirement would be effective as of the end of this year. The 57-year-old Donahue is the former CEO of Nextel, Sprint’s $35 billion merger partner. Tim Donahue Source: Sprint […]

NEW YORK -– The auctioneer stood on the podium before the assembled bidders. She waved a Klingon war glove that swallowed half her arm — a prop from one of the original Star Trek television episodes. “Now we can begin. The Klingons have said so,” pronounced Cathy Elkies, director of special collections at Christie’s auction […]

Reporter’s Notebook: It’s the spy scandal that keeps going, while morale among the rank and file at HP keeps flagging. It’s as though you can hear the question in the wind among the 150,000 or so HP employees scattered across the globe: Will we go through another upheaval in the CEO ranks….again? So far, CEO […]

IBM  spent the last year snapping up tools makers and software problem solvers in a quest to help companies get their applications talking to each other, which is a fundamental goal underlying service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. Now, IBM is showing off the fruits of all that green with a flurry of new products, all […]