Richard Adhikari

The long-drawn-out war between SAP and Oracle is going nowhere fast. Since first filing charges against SAP over allegations of industrial espionage, Oracle has twice amended its complaint against the German software firm. SAP had been scheduled to respond in court yesterday to Oracle’s second amended complaint, which it filed July 28. Instead, both parties […]

Thirty percent of enterprises cut IT spending and only 12 percent spent more than planned in the third quarter, according to the latest ChangeWave Research survey of nearly 1,500 respondents involved with IT spending in August. For the fourth quarter, 29 percent say their companies will cut or stop IT spending and 13 percent say […]

For the second time, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has put off including live migration features in its virtualization technology. Live migration capabilities enable users to move a virtual machine (VM) either manually or automatically from one physical server, cluster or processor to another, instantaneously, while the VM’s still running. This can help IT prevent overloading of […]

Enterprises have been struggling for years to leverage all the information on business processes they have stored away in order to conduct business better. The problem is much of this information is created in unstructured documents, such as spreadsheets and word processing documents, rather than in a database, making it difficult to control and manage. […]

Amid a frenzy of new products and announcements around virtualization from other industry players, Sun Microsystems today pressed forward on its own plans to carve out a place in the market, unveiling its xVM server hypervisor and striking new deals to broaden its existing partnerships. Sun’s open source-based xVM Server 1.0 marks the company’s foray […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) this week gave further signs that it’s ready to challenge virtualization leader VMware on its home turf, taking the wraps off its Hyper-V Server 2008 and revealing that another key virtualization component is only weeks away. The company said Hyper-V Server 2008 will be available free on the Web, while System Center […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban Source: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Why would billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban want to go on the ABC show “Dancing with the Stars”? Because it “was fun, it was a challenge, and on top of that, I just got my hip replaced, so I could either go to a big fat […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Representatives of startups making presentations at TechCrunch50, running at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse until Wednesday, are understandably nervous as they are presenting to some of the most astute minds in high-tech, both in the judges’ panel and in the audience. None of this fazed the presenter for Tonchidot, a Tokyo-based […]

So there I was, sitting at a table at TechCrunch50 today, on the second day of the show, still struggling, like many others, with the erratic Internet access, having the connection go down on me umpteen times as I tried to get stuff, when suddenly the clouds parted and a light shone on me from […]

Is the new generation of entrepreneurs running out of ideas? One of the four ideas presented during this morning’s session on collaboration at TechCrunch50, running at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse until tomorrow drew heavy fire from entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who was one of the judges. That was Imindi (pronounced Eye-mind-eye), which presented the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When Netscape co-founder and chief technology officer Marc Andreessen tells a new entrepreneur how to monetize his idea, you think he would listen. Not the staff of Rinen, a Japanese startup that has created OpenTrace, an application which dynamically calculates the effects people and products have on the environment. After the Rinen […]

SAN FRANCISCO – As expected, new and interesting products were on display today in the Demo Pit at TechCrunch50, being held at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse through Wednesday. They include a site that lets companies pay people around the world securely, an online selection-based search system that speeds up online search, and a […]