John Pallatto

Motive Inc., which specializes in application management software, has introduced three new products for troubleshooting and tracking enterprise application performance. The new products, Motive Profile, Triage and Resolution, are designed to reduce the time and manual labor associated with diagnosing, tracking and resolving problems with application configurations and performance, according to officials with Motive, based […]

Oracle extended its $7.7 billion tender offer for all outstanding shares of PeopleSoft yet again on Thursday, as it waits for U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker to issue a decision in an antitrust lawsuit that aims to permanently block the buyout. The offer of $21 per share is now scheduled to expire at midnight […]

Enterprise IT managers are becoming more sophisticated planners and negotiators when it comes to implementing utility computing systems capable of responding in a cost-effective way to dynamic business conditions, according to a report by market research firm The Yankee Group. The report on the TCO (total cost of ownership) for utility computing says IT managers […]

After nearly five years of development work, Ford Motor Co. will dismantle an Oracle-based procurement application and shift back to earlier technology, a company spokesman confirmed Thursday. The automaker decided to “transition back to proven current systems” after evaluating the current status of Everest, Ford spokesman Paul Wood said. “Some of the [Everest] functionality that […]

Its astounding that Google is prepared to blithely follow through this week with its long-ballyhooed and apparently grossly bungled initial public stock offering, even as the Securities and Exchange Commission and individual states are starting legal inquiries. Google Inc. is convinced that the huge sums of money it stands to make from this IPO will […]

The hottest high-tech recruiting markets in the United States in 2004 have shifted from the historic job-creation engines of Silicon Valley and Boston to New York City and Washington, according to Dice Inc., an online job site for technology careers. “Washington is the hottest technology market in the nation right now,” with the federal government […]

Youd think the 9/11 terrorist attacks would have taught IT executives everything they needed to learn about making thorough business continuity and disaster recovery preparations. In the wake of the attacks many companies beefed up their business continuity plans by making sure data assets were mirrored and backed up at secure sites. But after the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker Friday made it clear that that he wouldnt hesitate to unseal confidential documents, especially if some of those documents addressed key points in his decision in the Oracle antitrust trial. A gaggle of high technology companies that had to offer up testimony and confidential documents in the Oracle […]

IBM on Tuesday released a new WebSphere business process modeling tool that is designed to make it easier for enterprises to discover how their business processes work and how they should build IT systems that automate those processes. The WebSphere Business Integration Modeler Version 5 is based on open development standards including the Eclipse universal […]

IBM and Computer Associates made the best moves they could this week to revitalize the use of relational database technology that would otherwise just languish on the market, according to analysts. IBM disclosed at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it is giving the open-source software development community access to its Cloudscape relational database by donating […]

For the past three years people have asked when will the IT industry recover from the 2000 bust only to be told again and again that they would have to wait until at least the second half of the year. It is now the second half of 2004 and it looks like the recovery that […]

In mid-July, stock market analysts and computer industry pundits came to Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., seeking guidance on how the enterprise software market was going to grow during the rest of 2004. While Oracle Corp. was among the software companies that reported healthy sales and profit growth in the second half of 2004, […]