John Pallatto

Oracle is only postponing the inevitable by stubbornly maintaining its policy of licensing its software on a per-core basis, especially as chip vendors prepare to release CPUs with an increasing number of cores running multiple threads. Four-core and even eight-core chips will soon arrive on the market. Each of those cores will run two or […]

Riverbed Technology on Monday announced version 2.0 of its Steelhead application acceleration appliance, which is designed to improve the performance of applications running over WANs. Version 2.0 is designed to make it easier for customers to give remote offices speedy access to centralized servers running back at headquarters, company officials said. The appliance provides fast […]

Enterprises that expect to reap hefty savings simply as a result of assumed lower employee costs provided by offshore IT outsourcing services will be sadly disappointed, according to a survey of more than 5,000 corporate executives around the globe. The 2005 Offshore Outsourcing Research Report, produced by Ventoro LLC, an outsourcing consulting and market research […]

IT companies frequently talk as if the small and midsize business market they are all competing to serve is some newly discovered continent that is theirs to conquer. But the fact is that companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and a host of others have been selling hardware or software […]

Oracle has been working hard to win over J.D. Edwards and PeopleSoft resellers, and it is serious about providing long-term support for the enterprise resource applications that it acquired at great expense in December. But it appears that it still has more evangelizing to do. Oracle President Charles Phillips gave J.D. Edwards resellers a pep […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—J.D. Edwards resellers and system integrators expressed concern Thursday about how big a piece of the market pie Oracle will share with them even as they expressed satisfaction that the enterprise resource product line has a future at least through 2013. Oracle Corp. convened a partner summit for resellers, integrators and ISVs at […]

The advent of powerful new multicore processors is adding impetus to a shift away from older forms of licensing, such as per-processor licensing, to per-user and even subscription licenses, as ISVs offer their products on demand over the Web or as a utility service. Top chip manufacturers such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems […]

RightNow Technologies Inc. is seeking to vault ahead of hosted application service competitors by adding voice features to its customer relationship management product line. RightNow has released eight voice-enabled application modules that will allow customers to supplement their Web-based CRM applications with voice interactions, said Joseph Brown, RightNows vice president of voice solutions. The features […]

Hoping to present a new face to the world, Computer Associates International, the company with one of the longest monikers in the industry, is considering officially hacking its name down to two stark letters: “CA.” This is hardly a major change, since the company has been using its CA initials in its advertising, press releases, […]

The Supreme Courts decision Monday that Grokster and other file-swapping services can be held liable for illegal downloading doesnt overturn the “fair use” doctrine established in the early 1980s when consumers started buying videocassette recorders to copy television shows and movies, according to a Washington-based copyright attorney. However, how the law is interpreted by the […]

Bitter IT industry rivals never get a better chance to thumb their noses at each other than when they manage to hire away highly sought-after senior executives. But lately it seems that the worlds top software companies have been more aggressive than ever about luring top management talent away from each other. While internecine recruiting […]

Too many companies, including small and midsize organizations, put the cart before the horse when it comes to making plans to implement a CRM package. They start thinking about what type of customer relationship management software package they should buy or build before they start planning on what they want CRM to do for the […]