John Pallatto

The firing of PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway shouldnt derail the $1 billion middleware alliances with IBM that the two companies announced with much fanfare last month, industry analysts said. But Conways firing—along with the U.S. Department of Justices decision Friday not to appeal a U.S. District Court ruling that Oracles $7.7 billion buyout bid […]

The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it would not appeal the recent U.S. District Court decision that Oracle Corp.s $7.7 billion hostile buyout bid for PeopleSoft Inc. didnt violate federal antitrust law. In early September, Judge Vaughn Walker cited issues with the Justice Departments depiction of the enterprise software market during the trial and […]

Seeking to diversify beyond its sales-force-automation roots, Salesforce.com on Wednesday introduced a new on-demand call center and help desk application service called Supportforce.com. The new service will allow companies to set up call centers, contact centers, help desks and other customer-service systems without installing and maintaining software at their own headquarters. Instead, customers will log […]

IBM has released the DB2 Information Integrator, which includes search technology that will bring order to the often-jumbled data sources of corporate intranets, company officials said. The latest version of the information integrator, formerly code-named Masala, will make it “dramatically easier to access information of all different kinds, whether it is in e-mail repositories, or […]

At PeopleSofts Connect 2004 user conference, CEO Craig Conway claimed that his company and IBM will jointly spend $1 billion in a development alliance to integrate PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with IBMs WebSphere middleware. John Pallatto, eWEEK.com Enterprise Applications Center editor, interviewed Buell Duncan, IBMs general manager of ISV and developer relations, about […]

Rarely in the history of American business has a major a U.S. corporation had to make such sweeping admissions of management misconduct and offer such massive levels of investor restitution as Computer Associates has. The only factor that separates CA from the egregious likes of bankrupt Enron is that its still a going concern and […]

Jabber Inc. announced major extensions to its instant messaging product line on Monday, including new versions of its development platform and Windows messaging client. Jabber XCP 4.0 is the companys mainstay presence development platform that provides program interfaces and development tools for integrating instant messaging into enterprise applications, according to Kris Skavish, director of product […]

America Online Inc. announced Monday that it is launching an “AIM Bot Program” that will automatically distribute targeted advertising and “online presence” campaigns to its 100 million instant message users. AOL decided to build up the bot program after the success of a number of test bots, including one for the syndicated game show “Who […]

SAN FRANCISCO–While still uneasy about the ultimate outcome of the Oracle Corp buyout bid PeopleSoft Inc. customers said Tuesday they were encouraged that the company was aggressively pursuing its own product strategy and had formed an important new technology alliance with IBM. The upbeat keynote address by PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway was especially well received […]

Now that Oracle has defeated the U.S. Department of Justices attempt to permanently block the PeopleSoft buyout, speculation has already begun about whether this decision will encourage the European Union regulators to approve the deal. The European Commission heard much of the same evidence that U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker heard before he issued his […]

Oracle has triumphed in many more ways than one with the U.S. District Courts decision to deny the Justice Departments request for a permanent injunction against its buyout of PeopleSoft. But this decision could prove to be just one skirmish in what has been a long, complicated and costly campaign to determine whether PeopleSoft will […]

More than a few database administrators will likely spending at least part of their Labor Day weekend installing the security patches Oracle Corp. released Tuesday, or if not, they should be, according to one database administrator. “I expect a lot of database administrators will be applying these patches over the next few days or over […]