Larry Barrett

Broadband over power line technologies (BPL)  and products will continue to gain momentum in 2007, according to a report issued by market researcher In-Stat, but price, retail availability and the struggle for a unifying standard are preventing widespread adoption. The technology that makes it possible to deliver broadband Internet through existing power lines has been […]

SAP on Tuesday announced it had made a multimillion-dollar investment in Nakisa, a Canadian developer of software applications used to visualize employee depth charts and develop succession-planning strategies. In addition to the cold, hard cash, SAP also inked a global reseller agreement to sell Nakisa’s OrgManagement and SuccessionPlanning applications (renamed as SAP’s Talent Visualization by […]

VMware on Tuesday got even more validation for its virtualization software suite, thanks to a deal that will see SAP providing support for all of its business applications running on VMware’s ESX Server software. As a result of the agreement, the German software giant will support its virtualized enterprise resource planning (ERP) software running on […]

VMware on Tuesday released its Virtual Infrastructure 3 software with several new features it says will make life much easier for datacenters managers. Virtual Infrastructure 3 consists of the VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 modules. According to Bogomil Balkansky, VMware’s senior director of product marketing, its latest iteration takes virtualization to the next […]

HP on Monday announced it would pony up $117.5 million to buy NUR Macroprinters, an Israeli maker of industrial wide-format digital inkjet printers. The purchase is part of HP’s Print 2.0 strategy of next-generation printers designed to position it ahead of the curve in its bread-and-butter market. NUR Macroprinters is a leading supplier of UV-curable […]

NetSuite on Monday said it has finally launched the auction portion of its initial public offering, giving individual investors rather than underwriters the opportunity to set its opening stock price. Company executives have said NetSuite plans to use its IPO proceeds to pay off debt, build a second datacenter and possibly make some acquisitions. The […]

Goldman Sachs on Friday upgraded CA shares to a “buy” recommendation and added the company’s stock to its “Americas Conviction Buy List,” a short and prestigious list of companies it considers to be the cream of Wall Street’s crop. While CA shares only closed up 91 cents, or 4 percent, to $26.89 a share, the […]

Oracle opened up its pocketbook again today, this time to snap up Dutch software firm Moniforce for an undisclosed price. Moniforce’s webStress and webProbe software lets companies monitor and evaluate the performance and availability of their Web applications by tracking a company’s total network traffic. Oracle officials said Moniforce’s applications will help round out its […]

Novell surprised investors and analysts Wednesday when it indefinitely postponed the release of its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results while it continues to answer new questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citing what it called an “abundance of caution,” the Waltham, Mass.-based company sent out a press release Wednesday morning detailing its decision to […]

SAP on Tuesday released an upgrade of its CRM 2007 software suite featuring a new user interface and support for Web 2.0 applications in the enterprise. The software is available in packaged and hosted versions and, at least for now, will not be available as an on-demand, software-as-a-service (SaaS)  offering. In September, SAP unveiled Business […]

McAfee and Cox Communications on Monday announced a partnership to deliver a suite of antivirus and security software applications for high-speed Internet customers logging on through the country’s third-largest cable company. Dubbed the Cox Security Suite, the offering will be available to Cox high-speed broadband subscribers early next year at no additional cost. It includes […]

Serena Software on Monday announced the general availability of its Business Mashup software suite, giving companies of all sizes the ability to build these handy mashup applications without the hassle or expense of going through their IT departments. “For every project IT is doing, 10 projects get ignored,” said Tim Zonca, Serena Software’s director of […]