Phil Wainewright

Oracle Corp claimed to have turned the enterprise software market upside-down yesterday with the launch of a free-of-charge, Internet-based sales force automation application, OracleSalesOnline.com. Four hundred customers in fifteen countries were live at launch of the service, which provides the core sales applications from Oracle’s flagship enterprise software suite, delivered as a free, online service. […]

ASP infrastructure software startup Xevo Corp expanded its partner program this week, adding five new industry heavyweights to the lineup, and launching three separate program categories. And in an exclusive interview with ASPnews.com, company executives revealed its expansion to Europe with the opening of regional headquarters in the high-tech location of Sophia Antipolous, France. The […]

Financials and time-tracking ASP eCedar has landed oil and gas industry giant Shell International Exploration and Production BV as its first customer win, it reported today. The contract is for delivery of the provider’s flagship ASP product, Cedar Financials, as well as its enterprise time management application Cedar Track. eCedar is the ASP arm of […]

Silicon Valley ASP Applicast Inc today launched fixed-cost, fixed-time SAP and Siebel packages that can be implemented in as little as four to six weeks. Called FastPack, the hosted solutions are targetted at aggressive-growth businesses in vertical industries such as Internet services, manufacturing and distribution. Representing the next generation of ASP offerings from Applicast, the […]

Software developers will be able develop and sell hosted applications to small business customers through a new service launched in beta today by startup SoftwareMarkets, Inc. The company will host and market a wide range of certified applications customized to the needs of small businesses by independent developers. The first wave of Java developers are […]

In a major about-face from its previous stance, Oracle today announced the creation of an ASP channel for its enterprise applications, amidst a significant broadening of its ASP strategy. Oracle has extended its iHost initiative with a new category of provider called Oracle Authorized Application Providers. OOAPs are an elite group — approved directly by […]

Agilera, the ASP joint venture set up by hosting provider Verio, Inc and IT services company Ciber, Inc , has raised a new round of $80m equity financing. The new funding, led by First Union Capital Partners LLC, significantly expands the list of investors behind Agilera, which was formed in February this year by Verio, […]

ASP infrastructure technology and service provider New Moon announced completing a $35m funding round yesterday, led by high-profile Internet economy investor Softbank Venture Capital. Network services vendor Novell, Inc. , Internet business accelerator Green Frog Innovations and investment group Vertex Management also joined in the funding round. New Moon’s turnkey service for independent software vendors […]

Leading ASP USinternetworking Inc has a new CEO today. Former chief operating officer Andrew Stern has been promoted to the CEO role, taking over from founder Chris McCleary, who retains his role as chairman and will lead a newly-created executive committee. “We’ve formed a subset of the board of directors to rapidly turn round decisions […]

European ASP startup Genient announced global news and financial information provider Reuters Group plc as a backer today, bringing its first-round funding to £7.5m ($11.2m). Genient had previously (Jun 26th) announced closing £5.5m ($8.2m) in funding led by LMS Capital, pending finalisation of the contribution from Reuters Venture Capitals Greenhouse Fund. A Reuters representative joins […]

Shares in application service provider Corio, Inc. finished on a high note at the end of their first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock market yesterday. Corio stock closed just over 40% up on the offer price of $14, at $19 and eleven-sixteenths. The highest price seen during the day had been at the […]

London-based investment group Durlacher Corporation plc last week launched App-X, a new venture that will offer infrastructure development and services to the European ASP industry. App-X will have initial funding of £10.6m ($16m), with private financial investors contributing £10 million for a 62.5% stake. Durlacher is providing £0.6m plus its own significant minority stakes in […]