Michael Singer

Oracle is telling a story of disparate systems and misplaced information this week at its software conference. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software Wednesday released its Oracle Customer Data Hub and other software this week as a way to entice companies to buy their business intelligence offerings and differentiate themselves from rivals like SAP and Siebel […]

Microsoft is very close to releasing the full version of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, according to sources close to the matter. The Redmond, Wash.-based firm Tuesday made a second public beta of the software, three years in development, available for download. The software is geared to drive a server that sits […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday released new software changes destined to make their way into the next release of its Solaris operating system. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker has been making a steady stream of software builds available to the public on a monthly basis as part of its Solaris Express platform. The latest upgrades […]

Oracle on Tuesday laid a path to lead its customers toward using its outsourcing tools and services in their enterprise. The Redwood Shores, Calif., business software maker is now offering user-based pricing, letting companies license its software as a managed option on a per-user basis. In the past, some have complained that Oracle’s licensing fees […]

Wireless semiconductor maker Atheros is advancing its wireless LAN strategy with an all-in-one 802.11g chip. The new chip, announced Monday, combines three main aspects of what Atheros calls a quintessential 802.11g system — Media Access Controller (MAC), baseband processor, and a 2.4 GHz radio — in a digital CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) design. The processor […]

Intel Monday said it is investing some $20 million in a San Diego-based firm to help it make semiconductors smaller than a human hair and bring them to market sometime in the next five years. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said it is working with Cymer on a three-year contract to speed up […]

Oracle on Thursday said it has acquired the assets of a software company it says will pad its offerings for pharmaceutical companies — and no it’s not PeopleSoft. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company said it has taken over the operations of SiteWorks Solutions. The privately held Memphis firm supplies management software products, like its SiteMinder […]

By the year 2018, computer chips will be faster, cheaper and smaller than the width of a human hair, but will take a bit longer to produce. That’s the consensus of a new report released Wednesday by the five semiconductor trade groups. In its 2003 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), the […]

Motivated by the growing amount of Linux applications running in the enterprise, Intel Wednesday released new software designed to put the operating system to task on its Itanium family of processors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its VTune Performance Analyzer 2.0, priced at $699, is its first fully Linux-native performance analysis tool […]

AMD has the post-holiday PC purchase blitz to thank for its recent financial success. As part of its fourth quarter and end-of-year financial reporting, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker Tuesday blew out financial analysts’ 3 cent per share estimates with 9 cent per share earnings, as revenues of $1.21 billion topped $1.08 billion forecasts. In […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday bolstered its networking vision, saying it has plans to acquire data center switch maker Nauticus Networks. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun said it would purchase the privately held firm for an undisclosed amount of cash that it will pull from its $5.2 billion in reserves. The company said it expects the deal to […]

Macromedia is rolling out a line of e-learning products, part of a legacy of its $65 million acquisition of eHelp. The new platforms are used to help build e-learning applications, online help desks, software simulations and/or tutorial sessions. The San Francisco-based Web graphics software maker said its Macromedia RoboHelp X5 (USD$899), Macromedia RoboInfo 5.0 (USD$799) […]