Dennis Callaghan

IBM is expanding its Lotus Software divisions Lotus Workplace offerings into content management via acquisition, announcing Tuesday that it has bought Web content management software developer Aptrix, a longtime IBM business partner. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. But the deal adds Web content management to the Lotus Workplace portfolio so that users can […]

Art Technology Group and IBM announced an expanded partnership Monday that will call for ATG to integrate parts of IBMs WebSphere product line with its e-commerce software offerings. Under terms of the agreement, ATGs Commerce and Self-Service applications will be preintegrated with WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Studio development tools and WebSphere MQ application integration […]

Yahoo Inc. made the boldest move yet in the consolidating Web search space, announcing plans Monday to buy commercial Web search services company Overture Services Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.63 billion. The deal will give Yahoo Overtures paid search business, which lets advertisers buy placement on search results Web pages. […]

Online auction powerhouse eBay Inc. is increasingly moving beyond its core consumer auction business to bring corporate buyers and sellers together. But challenges still remain to the companys efforts to bring its auction services to the enterprise. While some enterprises are intrigued by the possibilities eBay could bring to democratize e-marketplaces, the same openness that […]

Autonomy Corp. plc is making a move into the rich media world with the planned acquisition of Virage Inc. announced Thursday. The all-cash transaction is valued at approximately $24.8 million and is expected to close by late in the third quarter. When complete, Autonomy, a search and knowledge management software developer based in Cambridge, England, […]

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a non-profit foundation known for advancing pro-business and free markets causes, proved that laissez faire capitalism has its limits, coming out on the side of PeopleSoft Inc. in its hostile takeover battle with Oracle Corp. The Center on Monday called on the U.S. Justice Department to stop […]

Not all Beltway pro-free market think tanks think alike. While the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise condemns Oracle Corp.s attempt to acquire PeopleSoft Inc. and filed a letter with the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday asking it to block the hostile takeover bid, the Competitive Enterprise Institute supports letting the deal shake out as […]

Enterprises looking for speed when it comes to business intelligence applications are getting help from Microsoft Corp. and Sybase Inc., which each announced new products to accelerate database performance. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., began shipping late last month Version 1.2 of its SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence, a rapid application development tool to automate […]

Cognos Inc. plans to launch a reporting application in the fall that it expects will solve enterprises concerns about usability and having to deploy multiple products from multiple vendors. The Web-based ReportNet tool supports not only the distribution of reports over the Web, as Cognos Impromptu Web Reports does now, but also the creation and […]

America Online Inc. is offering an upgrade of its Enterprise AIM Services as a way for enterprises to take advantage of the real-time communications capabilities of instant messaging without opening up security holes or causing directory services integration headaches. The Enterprise AIM Services upgrade, which was announced last week and doesnt have a version number, […]

America Online Inc. announced Monday a new version of its Enterprise AIM Services offering that includes encryption technology from VeriSign Inc. Encryption within the 5.2 version of AIM is enabled by VeriSign digital certificates obtained through AOL. Instant messages, file transfers and chat sessions can all be encrypted. Encrypted sessions can still be logged and […]

Microsoft Corp. this week will finally release to manufacturing its Exchange 2003 messaging server with new licensing models and no increase in price. But while some enterprises are looking forward to the upgrade, others are growing weary of the companys evolving road map. About 40 percent of the Exchange customer base has not upgraded from […]