John Pallatto

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Pursuing a “blended” applications development strategy that lets customers work with both open-source and commercial components, BEA Systems announced Wednesday that it has acquired M7 Corp., a privately owned maker of Eclipse-based development tools. M7 Corp., based in Cupertino, Calif., markets an integrated development environment called NitroX that helps developers build Web applications […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—BEA on Tuesday introduced the WebLogic Real Time Edition that is designed to give enterprise customers the level of stability and reliability they need for critical transaction processing applications such a financial trading or telecommunications. BEA Systems Inc. also kicked off its BEAWorld user conference here rolling out a the WebLogic Platform, a […]

Never in its history has Oracle had to appeal to such a diverse customer population and this situation has resulted in some remarkable sights and sounds at the companys OpenWorld convention this week. After buying no less than 10 companies this year, Oracle Corp. had to set a strikingly conciliatory tone aimed at convincing customers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Making a rare speech from prepared notes, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison drove home the theme of this weeks OpenWorld conference: that his company will refrain from dragooning customers into upgrading to the new Fusion products before they are ready to move. In a year when Oracle purchased 10 large and small companies to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Technology partners Tuesday said the software giants radical reorganization from seven into three major divisions is an important move to reduce costs and improve competitiveness. The partners, who were demonstrating their own technology on the exhibition floor of OpenWorld,—the annual customer conference of yet another partner, Oracle Corp.—said they didnt believe the reorganization […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. Monday disclosed that more than 26,000 customers are using its Fusion Middleware, which will form the data access backbone of its Project Fusion application integration strategy. Oracle has been developing its middleware business since 2001, and the company claims that it is the fastest-growing middleware technology in the industry, eclipsing the growth […]

Siebel Systems Inc. officials denied market predictions this week that its hosted customer relationship management application service would have a short life span in the hands of its prospective new owners Oracle Corp. After the buyout was announced on Monday, Siebel found itself the butt of competitor gibes and analysts predictions of doom based on […]

With the introduction of its AppExchange application-sharing platform, Salesforce.com contends it has a chance to become the eBay of hosted software, supporting a community of thousands of software developers. Salesforce.com has already built the software-sharing platform. The question now is will the developers come by the hundreds and thousands? Salesforce.com says they are already starting […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With its $5.85 billion buyout of Siebel Systems on Monday, Oracle will face persistent questions about how it can effectively market or integrate what amounts to seven different CRM product lines, software industry executives and analysts said Monday. Oracle Corp. officials said Monday that the Siebel Customer Relationship Management products will be folded into […]

If Microsoft keeps trying, it might eventually get its enterprise resource application strategy in order. But it is apparent from the announcements Wednesday at Microsofts Business Summit at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters that the company is still years away from having a truly integrated product set. The development of a new generation of its Microsoft […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft customers who attended the companys business summit here Wednesday said they are pleased the company is making a major commitment to the midmarket segment. However, they expressed impatience that it would take several more years for them to see the full results of this strategy. Microsoft has been hard-pressed to bump up its […]

Oracles competitors are taking the long view when it comes to waiting for their chance to get PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards to switch to their products. The end-game plan is already in place: Oracle has launched its Project Fusion strategy, in which it will continue to support PeopleSoft and JDE products until the technology is […]