Larry Barrett

Verio this week launched what it’s calling its Business Solutions suite, a fairly basic package of on-demand business applications geared for the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) crowd. Microsoft Exchange 2007, McAfee Total Protection, SugarCRM Professional edition, Accrisoft’s business management and productivity suite—which integrates with Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro—and an online PC data backup service will […]

In what may be the first of many such moves, Iron Mountain on Wednesday acquired Stratify, a leading vendor of e-discovery software, for $158 million in cash. The purchase could inaugurate a number of technology-related acquisitions for the iconic records management and storage company over the next five years: Iron Mountain is attempting to replicate […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Remember “coffee is for closers?” Maybe it’s time to update David Mamet’s classic “Glengarry Glen Ross” mantra for the Web 2.0 age: “Coffee is for chatters.” That’s apparently the deal for sales managers and reps who — like it or not — are embracing a bevy of Web 2.0 technologies to generate […]

SAP finally built it. Now it’s time to find out if customers will come for Business ByDesign. The enterprise software firm on Monday took what it hopes will be a step in the right direction when it announced 13 of its North American resellers will begin pushing its Business ByDesign product to the much-coveted small- […]

SAP late this week announced that Hitachi has signed a global enterprise agreement to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services to facilitate the electronics manufacturer’s transition to a full-scale, enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) . The deal, confirmed just ahead of next week’s SAPPHIRE 2007 conference in Miyazaki, represents the first of its kind […]

Bucking a trend that prevailed for much of the past decade, investment bankers are now betting big on private companies that have new ideas and business plans in addition to a more seasoned management team with well-defined global aspirations. And while a handful of the most successful initial public offerings in the technology sector this […]

Vonage on Thursday announced it has settled a protracted patent lawsuit with telecom giant Verizon Communications that will cost the struggling VoIP firm a maximum of $120 million. Ahead of the announcement, Vonage shares slid 7 cents a share, or four percent, to $1.53 a share before storming up $1.22 a share, or 80 percent, […]

SanDisk on Thursday filed three separate lawsuits against 25 Flash memory product and memory player manufacturers, claiming each of the companies infringed on one or more of its Flash memory patents. The 25 companies named in the Flash memory company’s lawsuits — including LG Electronics, Silicon Motion Technology, Memorex and Verbatim — all manufacture, sell […]

VMware on Wednesday posted a third-quarter profit of $64.7 million, or 18 cents a share, on sales of $358 million, easily exceeding analyst estimates in its first quarter as a publicly held company. Analysts predicted the virtualization software company would earn 17 cents a share on sales of $334 million in the quarter. More impressive, […]

Google on Thursday shattered Wall Street estimates in its third quarter, posting a profit of $1.07 billion, or $3.38 a share, on sales of more than $4.23 billion. Excluding costs related to employee stock options, Google earned $3.91 a share, well above the $3.78 a share profit expected by most analysts. “It’s obvious to us […]

SAP on Thursday narrowly topped analyst profit estimates in its third quarter, raking in $579 million on sales of $3.44 billion. Analysts were looking for sales of $3.46 billion in the quarter, a target the German software giant would surely have met or exceeded if not for currency fluctuations related to the strength of the […]

SAP on Wednesday announced its first contribution to the Eclipse developer community previously only available in its NetWeaver stack. Memory Analyzer, which was developed under the Eclipse Public License, is intended to make life easier for developers building applications that require lots of memory. Developers use the Eclipse Framework to create applications and toolkits for […]