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PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway blames Oracles persistent takeover battle for sales that have been delayed or lost. The companys first-quarter revenue of $643.1 million fell short of analyst expectations and marked the first time the company has missed estimates since Oracle launched its hostile takeover in June. For the full story, go to ComputerWeekly.com. /zimages/4/28571.gifCheck […]

Sun and Oracle have announced that Suns first AMD Opteron processor-based server, the Sun Fire V20z, running Oracle Application Server 10g, has achieved an overall SPECjAppServer2002 price/performance world record and offers customers a 37 percent better price/performance than previous DualNode results. For the full story, go to LinuxElectrons. /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms Database Center at http://database.eweek.com […]

Microsofts hefty legal expenses arent its only financial challenge. If you peek behind the Redmond earnings curtain, it quickly becomes apparent that all is not rosy in Microsoft Business Solutions land. Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) — the Microsoft division comprised of the Great Plains, Navision, bCentral and Microsoft CRM teams — is Microsofts small and […]

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children launched a new campaign against online child pornography Thursday. The initiative, backed by a $1 million contribution from philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson and Microsoft, will provide law enforcement with technology training throughout the world. The International Centre said it received more than 200,000 reports of “Internet-related child […]

China agreed Wednesday to indefinitely delay implementation of its proprietary wireless encryption protocol. Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi announced the delay of Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure, or WAPI, following day-long talks with U.S. trade officials in Washington. The standard was to have taken effect on June 1. Prior to todays decision, companies like […]

Forum Systems Inc. last week announced a partnership with Oracle Corp. to provide additional security for production Web services. The partnership enables customers of Forum to use the companys XWall appliance to share identity information across operating systems and computing environments. Forums XWall Web Services Firewall with XML Intrusion Prevention (XIP) now supports Oracle Database […]

Phishing has increased about 1,200 percent in the past six months, according to MessageLabs Inc. In September of 2003, the companys system logged 279 different phishing e-mail attempts around the Internet. By January, the number of scams numbered 337,050. Consulting firm iDefence said the reported statistical increase may be due to an increase in the […]

MSN is looking to grow revenues in areas beyond online advertising by adding new subscription services to its repertoire. Microsofts online subsidiary has supplemented its handful of existing subscription-based services with four, new, paid subscription games, the company announced on Thursday. MSN is launching the new games, branded under “MSN Instant Games Clubhouse,” simultaneously with […]

Copan Systems Inc. announced a disk library that is geared for backing up a massive amount of seldom-used data. The Revolution 200T library scales from 56TB to 224TB in a single cabinet that houses up to 896 Serial ATA drives. The company said it expects the initial version of the Revolution 200T to be available […]

UK-based Plasmon this week announced the acquisition of Raidtec Holdings Limited for £3.4 million ($6.08 million). The move comes on the heels of a two year project that links optical storage libraries and storage networks. Peter Gerr, senior analyst with the Enterprise Storage Group, said the acquisition is a wise move and that the deal […]

In a company where most of the 58,000 employees are paid to sweat the details, Microsoft Corp.s Pat Helland is somewhat of an anomaly. He is a big-picture thinker. Nine-year Microsoft veteran Helland came to Microsoft from Tandem Computers, where he was chief architect and senior implementer of the transaction monitoring facility. He has done […]

With much fanfare, IBM rolled out its service-oriented architecture strategy on Wednesday. Microsoft Corp. has yet to do the same. But that doesnt mean the Redmond, Wash., software giant is sitting on the SOA sidelines. “Microsofts strategy for SOA has two major parts to it,” said Pat Helland, platform architect with Microsofts.Net Enterprise Architecture Team […]