Larry Barrett

A New York-based publishing firm has agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve a copyright infringement suit filed by the Software & Information Industry Association on behalf of several prominent software vendors. Whittiker Legal Publishing on Wednesday signed off on settlement to resolve a lawsuit brought against it in federal district court in the Eastern District […]

Salesforce.com has released a new pay-per-login payment option for users to access applications developed on its Force.com platform. Rather than paying the $50 per user monthly fee for the all-you-can-eat buffet of business applications, customers can now opt to pay $5 per log-in with a maximum of five log-ins each month. The company said this […]

IBM on Thursday delivered stellar fourth-quarter earnings, posting a profit of $3.96 billion, or $2.80 a share, on sales of $28.9 billion. Analysts were expecting IBM to earn only $2.60 a share on sales of $27.8 billion. IBM CFO Mark Loughridge credited the company’s global services and software units for much of the upside surprise. […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.–Eager to start seeing some return on its $6.7 billion splurge for Business Objects, SAP took the wraps off nine new business intelligence and business optimization software packages Wednesday that are designed to give enterprise customers the ability to monitor and respond to business information regardless of the format or application from which […]

It didn’t come easy and it didn’t come cheap but Oracle on Wednesday finally got its hands on BEA Systems after agreeing to pay more than $8.5 billion for one of the last significant independent middleware vendors still standing. Oracle, which had its initial “friendly” takeover bid of $6.7 billion, or $17 a share, rebuffed […]

Maybe it’s just a cat thing. IBM on Wednesday announced its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) will support the Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, a.k.a. ‘Leopard’ beginning with the mid-year release of the latest version of IDS 11, code-named Cheetah 2. Developers can now download a beta version of IDS Developer Edition from the IBM […]

VMware today announced the acquisition of Thinstall as it looks to expand its tentacles beyond datacenter virtualization to help customers better deploy and update desktop applications. Thinstall 3.3 Virtualization Suite acts as a thin virtual operating system (VOS) that merges a virtual system environment with the real system environment. It transparently streams large applications from […]

SAP on Monday told shareholders to expect fourth-quarter sales of roughly $4.9 billion, up 10 percent from the year-ago quarter and almost $200 million more than analysts had originally predicted. The German software giant will release its full fourth-quarter and fiscal 2007 results on January 30. Investors responded by pushing SAP shares up $2.02, or […]

With the launch of something it calls the Retail Integration Framework (RIF), IBM this week gave prospective customers and its competitors a preview of what it has in store for SOA-enablement in the coming year. RIF isn’t a product but rather an enterprise software architecture, or framework, designed to help fill in the gaps between […]

HP on Thursday rolled out Medical Archive Solution (MAS) 3.0, an archiving platform designed to increase storage flexibility and medical data availability for healthcare providers. This latest iteration includes integrated ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks SAN and MSA disk storage with indexing, policy management and search software built on a grid architecture that allows hospitals, medical […]

IBM and the Mayo Clinic on Wednesday announced the opening of a new collaborative research facility designed to speed the processing of compute-intensive algorithms used to deliver medical images from patients’ MRI and CT scans. The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) is the latest product of a four-year partnership between IBM and the Mayo […]

IT outsourcing deals don’t garner the splashy headlines they did just two or three years ago, but that doesn’t mean enterprise customers are suddenly averse to turning to outside providers for help with their most important technology projects. In fact, according to Gartner, worldwide outsourcing spending will grow about 8.1 percent this year to $441 […]