Larry Barrett

Oracle on Wednesday announced the release of the latest version of its Identity Manager software, a key security and access management component of its Fusion middleware platform. Oracle Identity Manager is a user provisioning and administration application that allows companies to automate the process of adding, updating and removing user accounts from applications and directories. […]

HP on Tuesday easily topped analyst estimates in its first fiscal quarter and raised its guidance for the rest of 2008, giving overwrought technology investors a refreshing bit of good news for a change. In the quarter ended January 31, 2008, HP earned $2.13 billion, or 80 cents a share, on sales of $28.5 billion. […]

Remember the Chicago Seven? Well, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has identified a group of alleged software thieves that might best be described as the “eBay Nine.” On Wednesday, attorneys for the trade association filed a single-day record of seven lawsuits, charging the individuals with copyright and trademark infringement. These lawsuits are in […]

Dell on Tuesday acquired MessageOne, an on-demand e-mail archiving and disaster recovery company, for $155 million as the computer maker continues its evolution beyond the PC to provide more software-as-a-service SaaS offerings for enterprise customers. MessageOne’s E-mail Management Services (EMS) and AlertFind applications provide e-mail management, archiving and disaster recovery services via the Internet. The […]

Salesforce.com shareholders received an unexpected gift Monday after Silicon Valley Watcher, a tech industry blog, reported the on-demand business applications vendor recently approached merger-crazy Oracle about a possible union. The posting was then picked up by a variety blogs and Web sites, including Salesforce Times, a site started by “dedicated fans and customers” that purports […]

Tibco Software on Monday released its latest middleware platform for customers deploying and managing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the enterprise. ActiveMatrix 2.0 provides expanded integration, governance and application development capabilities that allows companies to build and manage SOA applications and services supporting Java, .Net and service mediation. It also lets users create applications incorporating […]

Lost in among a heap of stories this week chronicling Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo was the fact that CA checked in with another fantastic quarter — the latest sign the company is well on its way to recovery from an accounting scandal that crippled the company and its stock for years. In its […]

Now that all the checks have been signed and SEC documents have been filed, top enterprise software vendors are racing to release new intermediate products to prove they can efficiently integrate all this new business intelligence technology they’ve paid billions to acquire. IBM on Wednesday took its turn, announcing 10 Cognos-enabled applications tailored for customers […]

HP is banking on telecommunications companies’ growing need to get in-depth customer information at a moment’s notice, on Wednesday introducing its new OpenCall Profile Manager and HP Service Governance Framework applications. OpenCall targets telecoms looking for a single snapshot of all their customer data in real time — no small order for information-saturated enterprises. “In […]

Every major software vendor– and even some minor ones– have hit the ground running in 2008 with new products, services and strategies to help companies begin or continue their transformation to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). But unlike years past when the sales pitches were almost universally tailored for the software architects, the IBMs, HPs and […]

So far this week, SAP has issued three separate press releases touting software deals with leading retailers. Sure, the news is a natural byproduct of this week’s National Retail Federation Convention and Expo in New York City, but SAP shareholders probably couldn’t care less. Not that Big Lots and 7-Eleven and even Grupo Pao de […]

So Oracle made it official Wednesday, agreeing to juice up its original takeover bid for BEA Systems by about 14 percent to take down the last middleware elephant roaming the enterprise software landscape. Of course, the announcement came the same day that SAP’s top executives were in the Bay Area to discuss their own coup […]