John Pallatto

American Express Business Travel and Rearden Commerce, the startup creator of a Web-based travel management service, have announced an investment and joint development deal aimed at expanding the market for the service. As part of the deal, American Express has invested $22.5 million in Rearden Commerce, which has taken a seat on the startup companys […]

Google Apps for Your Domain is getting an update that allows organizations to create customized start pages that combine their own corporate branding and specialized content with the Google search, e-mail, calendars and instant messaging. Google wants large corporations, SMBs (small and midsize businesses), nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities to deploy their own Google apps […]

IT systems management technology company BMC Software on Nov. 8 reported net earnings of $58 million, or 28 cents per share, on revenue of $387 million in its fiscal 2007 second quarter. The company reported net earnings of $43 million, or 19 cents per share, in the same quarter a year ago. Total revenue rose […]

Novell on Nov. 7 explained how its recent patent agreement with Microsoft neither violates the GPL nor implies that Linux infringes on any of Microsofts patents. Additionally, “Novell entered this broad set of agreements with Microsoft to further promote the adoption of Linux,” according to Novells senior VP and general counsel, Joseph A. LaSala, Jr. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Business Objects is integrating search into the latest version of its flagship enterprise business intelligence suite to make it easier for users to plan future business performance rather than to just analyze past results. The new search capabilities will be included in the Business Objects XI Release 2 Productivity Suite that the company plans […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is open to talking to other Linux distributors about reaching mutual patent coverage deals similar to the agreement signed Nov. 2 with Novell. Such talks would be a good idea, Ballmer suggested, since now only Novells SUSE Linux customers are the only Linux vendors that have any […]

Microsofts corporate customers may have another reason to take their time upgrading to Vista. The latest one is that the current version, Microsofts SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, released in April 2006, wont work with Vista or with the related Longhorn server. These two operating systems will only support SQL Server 2005 SP2 “or […]

While most customers are still contending with the intricacies of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle officials here told attendees of the companys OpenWorld show Oct. 23 that it was ready to launch the beta test version of its next-generation Database 11g. Speed and performance will be the hallmark of 11g, said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While most customers are still contending with the intricacies of Oracle Database 10g, company officials told attendees of its OpenWorld show Oct. 23 that it was ready to launch the beta test version of the next generation Database 11g. Speed and performance will be the hallmark of the 11g, said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Convinced that service-oriented architecture is mature enough and sufficiently trusted by enterprises, BEA Systems introduced here on Sept. 19 at its BEAWorld user conference a standard development platform that spans the companys three main product lines, Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic. Called WorkSpace 360, the platform enables business and IT professionals to work together to […]

William Ziff, Jr., who took over his fathers publishing company in the 1950s and led it through period of growth that followed the varying tastes of the American middle class from cars to the personal computer, died at his Pawling, N.Y., home on Sept. 9. He was 76. Ziff died “peacefully with his family at […]

EMC has been on a technology buying spree for the past three years that rivals only the voracious Oracle for its persistence, if not for its total cost. EMC has acquired no fewer than 13 separate companies since it kicked off the acquisition campaign spree in 2003 with the acquisition of document management specialist Documentum […]