SAP AG has acquired a suite of software applications and several other intellectual property assets from health care industry software developer Infinite Data Structures Inc. (IDS), the companies said Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Toshiba and IBM are about to end their 12-year-old LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture, Japanese newspaper The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Thursday.
IBM's microelectronics division said Wednesday it is working with MontaVista Software Inc. to make MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux operating system available for IBM's PowerPC-based set-top box (STB) controller. The deal follows IBM's recent embrace of the Linux operating system, and continues Linux's steady expansion into the consumer realm.
Countering the downward trend of many IT vendors, electronic-business software developer BEA Systems Inc. topped analyst estimates for its first quarter of 2001, ended April 30. BEA posted pro forma net earnings of $0.08 per share, on revenue of $257.2 million. Revenue grew 67 percent over the year-ago quarter.
Worldwide spending on IS (information systems) outsourcing will top US$100 billion by 2005, up from $56 billion in 2000, according to a recently released report from market researcher International Data Corp. (IDC).
Software maker BroadVision Inc. highlighted changes and additions in its upcoming InfoExchange Portal 6.0 product on Tuesday. The updated version of the software, designed as an e-business gateway for content management and enterprise collaboration, is scheduled for worldwide release at the end of June.
IBM inked an agreement with software developer Software AG to resell Software AG's e-business applications and services, the companies said Monday.
IBM will stop selling its Consumer Wallet e-commerce software package in early June, an IBM spokeswoman confirmed on Friday.
Compaq Computer Corp. scrapped its planned acquisition of Proxicom Inc. on Friday, saying it has decided not to compete with Dimension Data Holdings PLC's higher bid for the consulting firm.
The future of the IT industry is in services and consulting, but never mind the Big Five -- the real services leader is Big Blue, IBM Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lou Gerstner said Thursday during his annual meeting with Wall Street analysts.
Microsoft's plan to alter the way it licenses software to large corporate users is an attempt to increase and stabilize license sales revenue, according to analysts.
Microsoft Corp. is preparing to expand its "shared-source" initiatives, through which partners are allowed a peek at the prized Windows operating-system source code, but the company remains opposed to the open-source ethos, and it particularly scorns the popular GNU General Public License (GPL), a Microsoft executive said Thursday.
Businesses' reasons for investing in data management infrastructure are shifting from back-office, cost-reduction objectives to customer-oriented, revenue-generating goals, according to a study conduced by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) International and Gartner Group Inc. and released at this week's AIIM 2001 conference.
"The centralised Web development team model is dead," declared Interwoven President and Chief Executive Officer Martin Brauns in the opening keynote of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) 2001 in New York.
By 2005, the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, will surpass the United States in total Internet users, International Data Corp. (IDC) said in a report issued Friday.