Dennis Callaghan

IBM will announce Wednesday that its WebSphere Commerce Suite e-commerce software will support Linux on Intel-based systems. Previously the software supported Linux only on mainframe systems. Its extension to Intel-based systems is expected to make the software more accessible to small to medium size business customers, IBM officials said Tuesday. IBM will deliver the new […]

E.piphany Inc. reported a whopping $1.98 billion net loss in its third quarter, the company announced late Monday, but officials said brighter days are ahead. Part of the reason for the optimism is that $1.9 billion of that $1.98 billion loss came not from operations but from write-downs of stock transactions made when the E.piphanys […]

Venture capitalist turned software conglomerate Divine Inc. continued its acquisition spree Tuesday, announcing that it had bought privately-held customer relationship management software maker Synchrony Communications Inc. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, represents a departure of sorts for Divine, which has made a name for itself by acquiring distressed public companies at fire […]

Hyperion Solutions Corp. begins to deliver on its vision to extend analytics applications enterprise-wide with the announcement Tuesday of version 6.2 of its Essbase OLAP server. The new version of Essbase features a data source integration console that automates the transfer of data from multiple sources, such as ERP, CRM, SCM, and data warehouses. Essbase […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will enter the instant messaging arena next week with the announcement of an IM client within its forthcoming iPlanet Portal Server – Standard Edition. The Palo Alto, Calif., company will deliver the IM client as part of a “collaboration pack” within its portal server, sources said. The pack will also include chat […]

Business Objects SA and Informatica Corp. both came through the third quarter with modest revenue increases from the same period a year ago, despite the deteriorating economic conditions, the companies announced Thursday. Business Objects reported revenues of $99.2 million, a 15 percent increase from the same period a year ago. The company added 604 new […]

Up until yesterday, Siebel Systems Inc., the market-leading CRM software vendor, had been nearly immune from the slowing economy. Although the company was finding it harder to close deals, it continued to report revenue and earnings increases. But that all changed yesterday when San Mateo, Calif., company reported a fall-off in both revenue and earnings […]

PeopleSoft Inc. continued to buck the trend towards falling revenues and profits in the third quarter. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based developer of enterprise software saw revenues climb to $509 million – 15 percent over the third quarter of 2000. That included a 15-percent increase in license revenue to $152 million. PeopleSoft launched its Enterprise Service Automation […]

Microsoft Corp.s Microsoft Network Internet service has been chasing America Online Inc. for several years now for dominance in Internet access services. Next Thursday, the company is due to release Version 7 of MSN, just nine days after yesterdays release of AOL 7.0. With this new version, MSN moves to a high-speed broadband service for […]

Informatica Corp., best known for its data warehouse building software, plans to launch an all-in-one business intelligence solution by early next month. The company, which began a move into analytic applications in late 1999, will announce at its Informatica World 2001 users conference in San Francisco next week an integrated enterprise analytics suite that it […]

Internet banking software pioneer S1 Corp. is readying a J2EE-based application server platform that improves the interoperability of its software. S1 Enterprise Platform 1.0 will be the foundation for S1s transactional, collaborative, sales and service applications for the financial services industry, officials said. The platform, due Nov. 30, will provide the presentation layer for S1s […]

UpShot Corp. last week made available a hosted sales management application that combines partner relationship management with sales force automation capabilities. Dubbed Extended Relationship Management, or XRM, the Web-based application brings together a companys internal and external sales channels so sales executives can monitor and forecast sales across all business channels, improve collaboration among teams […]