Jim Wagner

Spend management software maker eLance launched Services Procurement and Management 4.5 (SPM) with an eye towards the vertical. The point release, rolled out Tuesday, expands the customer’s management of the services a company contracts — whether it’s a legal consultation or new marketing campaign — within industry-specific (or vertical) sectors. Once the services have been […]

A Dutch court said Lindows can keep its corporate name intact, foiling an attempt by Microsoft to get the commercial Linux vendor to stop using the name entirely. Microsoft was ordered to pay $1,158 in court costs after the latest ruling Thursday, which found that the use of Lindows as a corporate name does not […]

In a new twist to its investment relationship with Baystar Capital, the SCO Group said it would retire BayStar Capital’s 40,000 Series A-1 shares in the company for a payment of $13 million and just over 2.1 million shares of common stock. The transaction, including the A-1 shares with a face value of $40 million, […]

Developers can test and gain certification as a VoiceXML Developer, thanks to a test suite and educational track designed by the VoiceXML Forum, officials announced Tuesday. Certification tracks, while not used as proof of in-depth knowledge but as an indicator of certain baseline knowledge, are conducted on many programming languages and operating systems. For officials […]

Sun Microsystems has launched three identity management applications that combine its existing product line with technology it acquired from WaveSet in November 2003. The new lines are part of a major product and service announcement that Sun launched Tuesday, which also shines a spotlight on its ID Management systems that have been gaining traction around […]

BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies is expanding the company’s next-generation firmware to include PCs, servers, embedded devices and appliances. The announcement, slated for Tuesday, comes six months after the Milpatas, Calif., company debuted Core System Software (CSS) for notebooks, which it called the fastest-growing hardware requirement in the enterprise. Tuesday’s news expands CSS to other enterprise-centric […]

The Middleware Company (TMC) and JBoss, Inc., have severed their business ties with each other over ongoing charges of JBoss employees posting fake messages on the TheServerSide.com online forum. TMC, which owns the Web site, made the announcement Friday but there are questions about who cut the ties with whom first. TheServerSide.com caters to the […]

The 12-person board of directors at the Eclipse Foundation will announce their first executive director, three months after retooling themselves as a not-for-profit organization. Mike Milinkovich, formerly the vice president of OracleAS technical services at Oracle, will take over the day-to-day operations of the foundation Tuesday, for one-year terms that last until he resigns or […]

Computer Associates is having a busy week. As part of its yearly convention in Las Vegas, the software and services firm rolled out new additions to its product line, closed its books on last year’s finances, and positioned for a $10 million settlement with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). As part of its earnings […]

Delphi programmers can now tap into the eBay and PayPal commerce platforms to extend Web services applications, thanks to a joint distribution agreement signed by Borland . Developers for the Borland product on the Microsoft .NET framework can download a software development kit from eBay and PayPal (which is owned by eBay), a development that […]

Microsoft lost a battle of semantics against commercial Linux vendor Lindows on Monday, when an appeals court refused to consider the software giant’s interpretation of the term “windows.” The Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals denied Microsoft’s petition that the jury in the trademark case against Lindows — a name that bears striking […]

Computer Associates interim CEO Kenneth Cron told customers the company is focusing on the future and backed it up by unwrapping new software and services to better manage IT processes. “As you know, we’ve had some challenges recently,” Cron said in a keynote speech to launch caworld in Las Vegas Sunday. “I want you to […]