John Pallatto

SAN FRANCISCO-The latest edition of SugarCRM’s open-source CRM package, released as a public beta April 13, includes a revised UI designed to deliver speedy, simplified navigation along with improved mobile accessibility, company officials said. Sugar 6, which was introduced during the company’s SugarCon user conference here, is scheduled to become available to a subset of […]

IBM on April 7 launched a major push to win over new system integration partners, especially integrators specializing in Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems hardware with the introduction of two new server models including an x86 Unix System and a System z mainframe scale system. To sweeten its pitch, IBM is planning to spend up […]

Oracle is introducing the first major new release of the Tuxedo application server since it acquired the technology with the buyout in BEA Systems in 2008.Tuxedo 11G, redeveloped as part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11G, serves as an SOA-ready system that supports the development and deployment of C/C++, COBOL, Ruby and Python development languages. […]

Seth Ravin, Rimini Street’s president and CEO, says his company’s countersuit against Oracle claiming among other things “defamation, disparagement, trade libel and unfair competition” is a sign that Rimini Street is not going to “allow a larger company to simply intimidate us” out of a lucrative market for third-party enterprise application maintenance and support. Rimini […]

The determination to maintain an independent lab that could test and evaluate every conceivable microcomputer-based IT product has been melded into the Ziff Davis DNA since the early years of PC Week, the predecessor of eWEEK. Free from the influence of product vendors and industry spin doctors, eWEEK’s Labs analysts cut through the market hype […]

New Dell Servers, Storage Units Take Aim at Data Center Efficiency by John Pallatto PowerEdge C6100 Server The PowerEdge 6100 Server is designed for high performance cluster computing; to support private and public cloud platforms; and to support large-scale Web 2.0 applications. The system can support up to four independently serviceable nodes. Each node supports […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Dell is counting on the development of private cloud computing systems within corporate and academic data centers to help drive sales of its latest line of servers and software. Dell executives were here March 24 to introduce their enhanced servers, software and services designed to help organizations build their own cloud computing […]

SAP has no intention of getting into a merger-and-acquisition war with archrival Oracle as a way of increasing revenue or expanding the company, SAP’s new co-CEOs said on March 15. In their first meeting with the West Coast technology media, the two recently appointed co-CEOs, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, said the enterprise software […]

In the 25-year history of the .com domain name, it’s often been a case of “the last shall be first and the first shall be last” for many prominent Web URLs. After the .com domain was created in early 1985, many so-called dot-com companies rose to prominence with great ideas, blockbuster products and hundreds of […]

SAN FRANCISCO-RightNow Technologies, competing as one of the smaller players in the software-as-a-service market with the likes of Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP, offered a “Cloud Services Agreement” that it claims is a radically better deal for customers than the contracts offered by the big guys. The new agreement, which the SAAS customer service and […]

Salesforce.com continued to reap rewards from the rapid growth of the enterprise cloud software business as it reported record full year revenue for fiscal 2010 of $1.3 billion, a 21 percent year-over-year increase. The company’s total $1.4 billion run rate made Salesforce.com the “first enterprise cloud computing company to ever reach this scale,” said Chairman […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison became one of the richest and most influential software executives in the world by building his database software company he founded into a global multibillion dollar powerhouse. But he acknowledged that helping to bring the storied America’s Cup sailing trophy back to the United States and to his […]