Dennis Callaghan

Salesforce.com had its best month ever in October. So how did the company celebrate? By showing its CEO the door. John Dillon, the president and CEO of the hosted CRM (customer relationship management) services vendor for the last two years, stepped down Wednesday. Salesforce.com founder and Chairman Marc Benioff, who had been president and CEO […]

Perhaps its appropriate that on Halloween some odd new products would be coming on the market. Then again, these are strange times, what with some people afraid to even touch their mail for fear of anthrax contamination. Given that the IT industry is never at a loss to respond to such situations, it is no […]

InterWise Inc. is moving beyond the e-learning space into broader “enterprise communications” with the release Monday of its Enterprise Communications Platform, a product that provides audio, video and data sharing services. The Santa Clara, Calif., company also announced the addition of some collaboration software veterans to its management team. Joining the companys board are former […]

Lotus Development Corp. on Tuesday announced that it would sell its Discovery Server knowledge management software as a standalone product, effective with the 1.1 release of the software. Previously, Lotus bundled Discovery Server, which analyzes and identifies relationships between documents and people in an organization, with its K-Station portal software as part of its Knowledge […]

With a flurry of business intelligence introductions, software vendors are moving to meet the need for analytics integrated with enterprise applications. Hyperion Solutions Corp. last week released Version 6.2 of its Essbase online analytical processing server, the first step in the companys drive to provide enterprisewide analytics. The new version of Essbase features a data […]

In a fairly unsurprising move, business intelligence software vendor SPSS Inc. today announced plans to snap up struggling Web analytics software developer NetGenesis Inc. in a stock transaction valued at $44.6 million. The acquisition gives SPSS, best known for its predictive analytics and data mining software, a foothold in Web-centric data analysis, NetGenesis specialty. It […]

The worlds leading PC chipmakers cut processor prices once again on Monday, but the cuts were less severe and sweeping than previous moves, possibly indicating that a once hotly contested price war is cooling off. Intel Corp. reduced prices on its fastest selling Pentium 4 chips up to 29 percent, while rival Advanced Micro Devices […]

Opera Software ASA announced this week that its pressure campaign against Microsoft Corp. to give users of its browser access to the MSN.com Web portal paid off when Microsoft relented and opened the site to Opera users. Opera officials said the dispute stemmed from Microsofts claim that its browser did not comply with the latest […]

Startup Workbrain Inc. on Monday will introduce Workbrain 3.0, which brings together employee relationship management applications it developed for its initial customers into a packaged offering. ERM software allows companies to automate their internal business processes and manage relationships with their employees Workbrain 3.0 includes workforce management applications such as Holiday Management, Rate Calculations and […]

E-business security management software developer Netegrity Inc. announced plans late Wednesday to acquire enterprise portal software developer DataChannel Inc. The cash and stock deal, valued at approximately $50 million, is a key step in Netegritys strategy to deliver what it calls a “secure relationship management” platform. DataChannel portal technology will provide the centralized presentation and […]