Larry Barrett

Motorola on Friday announced that CEO Ed Zander will step down at year’s end to be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown, ending a tumultuous, four-year run atop what’s now the world’s third-largest handset manufacturer. Zander, who will continue in his role as chairman of the board of directors until the company’s annual shareholder […]

A string of high-profile acquisitions may soon pay off for HP, as the world’s sixth-largest software company in the world on Thursday debuted Automated Operations 1.0, its integrated suite for automating IT operations across the enterprise. The software-and-services suite, which HP calls “one of the key pillars” of its Business Technology Optimization portfolio, integrates applications […]

The Software & Information Industry Association on Tuesday launched an effort to at least stem the flow of pirated and counterfeit software sold on eBay — an initiative it calls the Certified Software Reseller (CSR) program. The CSR program marks the SIIA’s latest endeavor to protect the intellectual property of its member companies. The trade […]

IBM today released a refreshed version of its free OmniFind Yahoo Edition enterprise search software, designed to better enable companies to quickly find information stored within their organizations and across the Web. In connection with online search player Yahoo, Big Blue launched the first version of the product in December 2006, aiming to give Google […]

It appears it’s now just a matter of time before TomorrowNow, the third-party software service and support firm at the center of so much controversy between software giants SAP and Oracle, is sold to another third-party support provider. Last week, SAP announced that TomorrowNow CEO Andrew Nelson and a handful of senior executives at the […]

Oracle CEO and multi-billionaire Larry Ellison wrapped up what was, perhaps, the most important week of his company’s year by selling off another 1 million shares of Oracle stock. According to a Form 4 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ellison sold the shares as part of a prearranged trading plan on Friday, one […]

Salesforce.com shares rallied up $6.56 a share, or 13 percent, to close at $57.35, a day after the company topped analyst estimates in its third quarter and raised its full-year sales and earnings estimates. On Thursday, the provider of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) posted a profit of $6.5 million, or 5 cents a share, […]

BEA Systems on Thursday managed to top analyst estimates in its third quarter, as well as file several overdue financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But shareholders looking for a big payday from Oracle, or any other potential suitor, may be out of luck. During a meeting with analysts Wednesday evening, CEO Larry […]

IBM on Thursday announced “Blue Cloud,” a combination of software and hardware components that will let enterprise customers experiment with the “cloud” computing model that’s largely responsible for the growth and popularity of Web 2.0 heavyweights Google and Amazon.com. Dennis Quan, CTO of High Performance on Demand Solutions for IBM’s software group, said Blue Cloud […]

Day one on the job is typically the least productive of any new hire’s tenure. There’s an avalanche of paperwork to fill out, benefits packages to peruse and, more and more, a never-ending series of online forms to complete. Desks and PCs, if you’re lucky, have been assigned. Security badges are eventually dispersed. Maybe your […]

BEA Systems will file a number of delinquent financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] Thursday in order to save itself the indignity of a Nasdaq delisting and better position itself for sale to potential suitors. The middleware developer said on Wednesday it will file quarterly reports for the fiscal quarters that ended […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Ed Abbo, Oracle’s senior vice president for application development and the leader of Oracle’s Applications Unlimited program, on Tuesday outlined the software company’s long-term applications strategy during his keynote address at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. While he did sprinkle in a few new products and ideas, most of the presentation […]