Larry Barrett

Bridgestream, which develops software used to map business relationships within an organization, on Friday confirmed that it has become the latest in a string of acquisitions by Oracle . Ed Zou, Bridgestream’s vice president of marketing, told internetnews.com that both companies will make the announcement official sometime next week. He said the deal was actually […]

IBM on Tuesday rolled out a series of new storage products, including the DS3300, an array that includes Internet SCSI (iSCSI)  connectivity with simple installation features tailored for the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) market. Harold Pike, IBM’s entry and mid-range disk product marketing manager, said the DS3300 essentially functions as networked storage incorporating both […]

SAP sent an unmistakable message to its competition Tuesday when its entire executive board traveled to New Delhi to reaffirm the company’s plan to invest $1 billion into the world’s second-largest country by 2010. SAP  said the investment, first announced in 2006, will be spent to create a “strategic hub” in the region from which […]

Oracle  on Monday announced that eHarmony, a leading online dating and match-making service, is now using the Oracle 10g database to play Cupid to more than 17 million love-starved users. While the actual transition from Microsoft’s SQL Server database software only took an uneventful three hours, the planning, testing and installation took more than 14 […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — For a little more than a year, Denis Browne and a small team of developers and engineers at SAP have been given carte blanche to dream up, tinker with and ultimately deliver an entirely different breed of applications to complement its core business software franchise. This group, which SAP  calls its […]

NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco on Thursday announced plans to digitally scan, archive and manage thousands if not millions of still photos, films and videos documenting the entire history of American space exploration. NASA said all the images will be made available through a single, searchable archive developed by Internet Archive. In the […]

NetSuite on Thursday gave customers selling their wares to international customers a more convenient e-payment option when it chose CyberSource as its global payment partner. CyberSource provides secure electronic payment, credit card fraud management and verification software and services for more than 20,000 customers worldwide. Customers accessing NetSuite’s business applications will now be able to […]

When it comes to the business of selling technology, two immutable facts emerge: Past is prologue; and it’s always personal. Just ask Larry Ellison and Henning Kagermann, the stars of the latest and, some might say, most vicious revival of an age-old tale that’s been told and re-told throughout the history of American commerce. This […]

Microsoft announced six companies, including Intel  and Texas Instruments , are now licensing its voice software for audio conferencing, video, wireless over IP and gaming devices. The licensing agreements, which were announced Tuesday at the VoiceCon San Francisco 2007 conference, could help put Microsoft in the catbird’s seat as it extends its tentacles to the […]

Skype, the online telephone service, said Friday that it was “on the road to recovery” after a software glitch prevented most of its 220 million-plus subscribers from signing on to the network. In a statement posted on its Web site at 11:00 GMT Friday, Skype said its service was “stabilizing” but added “we know we’re […]

Could the 8th time be the charm? Everyone will soon find out now that IBM  is shipping Lotus Notes and Domino 8 to a mob of enterprise customers clamoring for more functionality, custom applications, Web 2.0 features like mash-ups and, most important, a snazzier and more intuitive user interface. While Notes and Domino 8 deliver […]

Dell said Thursday it will re-state financial statements spanning more than four years and admitted that senior executives either knew of or requested the manipulation of its results to meet quarterly profit and sales targets. The PC maker said it will re-state financial statements for fiscal years 2003 to 2006 and the first quarter of […]