Jim Wagner

For PDA or cell phone enthuasiasts frustrated by poking a stylus or fingers on seemingly microscopic-sized keypads, Microsoft’s Voice Command application might be a welcome change. The software giant’s Voice Command (version 1) was released Monday morning at Handago.com and PocketPC.com for $39.95, for PDA or cell phone users using the Windows Mobile 2003 software […]

Oracle is padding its E-Business Suite 11i.9 financial software with enhancements to the OracleO Treasury, including real-time cash flow forecasting and more control over Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance measures. The software advances, which officials said would come out in the first part of 2004, comes from suggestions made by its customer advisory group. The company said […]

SUSE, until now known mainly as ‘that European flavor of Linux’ with many Americans, is getting ready for a big push with businesses and government organizations, with the introduction of SUSE Linux 9 with 64-bit processing and 2.6 kernel enhancements to the Americas Thursday. The product has been available online since Oct. 24, but has […]

With its losses mounting and the size of its downsizing ever-expanding, EDS on Wednesday issued a quarterly report that has left little for its customers, employees and investors to desire. But within the report and within the walls of its executive suites, one bright spot that analysts are pointing to is the Product Lifecycle Management […]

A perennial dog for years when it comes to profitability, Microsoft’s MSN is splitting into two divisions, according to a report in Reuters. It’s essentially a split between its communications services (dial up and DSL , Hotmail, Passport and MSN Messenger) and its information services (MSN portal, search function and e-commerce) an area Microsoft is […]

With its vision of an enterprise service-oriented architecture (ESOA), webMethods Wednesday announced new products and partnerships at its Integration World 2003 in Orlando, Fla. Executives at the Web services infrastructure company have been saying for some time now that enterprise integration has reached a maturation point. Now, they said, is the time for the company […]

Microsoft got preliminary settlement approval from the courts over its ongoing anti-trust case regarding the Windows operating system, lawyers for the software company said Tuesday. Windows users and schools in Kansas and the District of Columbia will get $32 million and $6.2 million, respectively, in vouchers to purchase vendor-neutral software and hardware. The figure, Microsoft […]

Hours after announcing the launch of upgrades versions to its popular imaging and .pdf software, Adobe Systems Inc. gave analysts and investors a peek into its business strategy going forward into 2004. The company said it will meet expected financial guidelines for the third quarter of this year, which ends today. Adobe’s business strategy going […]

More than a year after announcing plans to puts its storage software on the Linux platform, VERITAS signed a partnership with the second commercial Linux OS Monday. SuSE Linux will work with the enterprise storage software company to engineer and sell VERITAS products going forward; for the time being it will resell VERITAS’ File System, […]

For 25 years, InterSystems’ bread-and-butter product has been its InterSystems Cache database. In a departure from the past, next week officials will unveil an application integration product. Ensemble is the culmination of a year of research and six months of testing after InterSystems customers kept asking for an interface and integrator to bind its databases […]

IBM has teamed up with Fidelity Information Services to provide an industry-specific WebSphere solution to bring outdated back-office software into the 21st century. Big Blue tabbed Fidelity to provide J2EE-based banking components for its WebSphere platform, in what officials say brings together IBM’s strength with infrastructure solutions and Fidelity’s expertise in the financial industry. The […]

IBM officials, who have spent much of this year telling people how their new On Demand software and services will work for businesses, announced Wednesday where to get started: with a physical assessment. One of the last software and service components in the infrastructure suite internally dubbed Project Symphony, the “personal trainer” services (as officials […]