SAP has delivered the first in a planned series of regular enhancements to the current version of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, as the vendor embarks on a new way to deliver ERP applications.
IBM is looking to increase its business with telecommunications operators with the unveiling of products, including a security bundle and a blade server, specially tailored to their needs.
While it's taken Microsoft half a decade to bring out a new version of its client operating system, the real development work on Windows Vista only took around two years, according to the head of the company.
Corel is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic document format duel and updating its WordPerfect word processing software to fully support both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML formats.
IBM is looking to better meet the needs of wireless service providers with its planned purchase of network performance monitoring and service management software vendor Vallent.
EMC is looking to drum up more market share and revenue for its Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) software. The vendor is announcing plans to offer a version of the product specifically designed to meet the needs of application vendors so that they can embed Documentum into their software.
Open-source collaboration software vendor Zimbra is adopting an intriguing approach to taking on proprietary titans like Microsoft and Google, using its channel partners as its competitive muscle.
SugarCRM became the latest open-source player to offer users a way to more simply install and support a full software stack comprising its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and other third-party offerings.
Craig Conway, the former head of PeopleSoft, has kept a low profile in the IT world since his public ouster from the company in October 2004, a few months before the enterprise applications vendor was acquired by Oracle.
Borland Software's surprise decision to spin off, rather than sell, its tools business overshadowed the vendor's appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO).
The former head of worldwide sales at Computer Associates has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to financial fraud charges in April.
IBM will invest $US100 million over the next two years in 10 potential new business opportunities after conducting a massive trawl for ideas among its staff, partners, customers and academic institutions.
It's not every day your boss puts you on the spot, but that's exactly what the head of Sun Microsystems did to his chief software executive as they both celebrated the vendor's move to make its core Java platform freely available.
Amid the ongoing consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) software market, Canadian player Open Text hopes to remain both an independent entity and relevant by tightening its partnerships with vendors that provide more base-level ECM.
It's not every day your boss puts you on the spot, but that's exactly what the head of Sun Microsystems did to his chief software executive as they both celebrated the vendor's move to make its core Java platform freely available.