Oracle tops corporate software usage study
Fresh off its annual OpenWorld conference, Oracle earned top rankings in a corporate software usage study released this week by ChangeWave, an investment research firm.
Stories by Chris Kanaracus
TomorrowNow CEO resigns; SAP might sell subsidiary
SAP said Monday that the CEO and other top executives of its TomorrowNow subsidiary have resigned and that the enterprise software maker may sell the business.
Vendors, analyst ponder Microsoft's enterprise search play
Microsoft's recent announcement of a pair of enterprise search products came as the market is at a "tipping point," in the words of one spokesman.
IBM making 'agile' moves
About 25 percent of software development projects within IBM are now employing some manner of "agile" methodology, a company official said Monday.
IBM Rational head: We're transforming
When Danny Sabbah became general manager of IBM's Rational division in 2005, he set out to make changes in the organization. Sabbah said Friday that this transformation is well under way.
VMWare fires back at Oracle's VM performance claims
A VMWare official on Friday scoffed at Oracle's contention that its recent entry into the virtualization market performs better than "the existing leader server virtualization product."
OPENWORLD - Ellison touts Fusion Applications
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison didn't display much of his traditional flamboyance Wednesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, but he did preview the company's next-generation Fusion Applications and said its Unbreakable Linux offering has met with initial success.
Sun joins virtualisation fray with xVM
Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, unveiled the company's virtualisation product line, xVM, at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
OPENWORLD - Oracle exec reassures PeopleSoft customers
The head of Oracle's PeopleSoft division this week gave customers a look at the PeopleSoft road map and repeatedly affirmed that support for the line will continue for at least the next couple of years.
Sun to buy ERM vendor Vaau
Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it plans to buy Vaau, a Torrance, California-based vendor of ERM (enterprise role management) and identity compliance software.
OPENWORLD - HP CEO: Further industry consolidation likely
Count HP CEO Mark Hurd among those who believe the tech industry could be on the cusp of another major wave of consolidation.
Oracle embraces open source Xen for virtualization
Oracle President Charles Phillips showcased a raft of new technologies on Monday -- key among them a virtualization product, Oracle VM -- during the opening keynote of the company's OpenWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco.
Gigaspaces targets "the Digg effect"
Hoping to seed grassroots interest, Gigaspaces is making its enterprise-targeted eXtreme Application Platform middleware available for free to startup firms.
Rational deepens ties to IBM's mainframe business
IBM is expected today to announce a set of Rational software products for modernizing applications running on its flagship System Z mainframes.
World of Warcraft, meet Visual Studio
A top official from Microsoft's developer division showcased an array of new development technologies this week, including a demo of the game World of Warcraft running within the company's Visual Studio integrated development environment.