John S. McCright

Oracle Corp. executives met with shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc. this week to convince them to buy into Oracles $6.3 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft. Now the executives are meeting with the press to better explain the rationale behind the plan. Two Oracle executive vice presidents are giving assurances that PeopleSoft customers would never be forced […]

Oracle Corp. raised the stakes in its bid to buy enterprise software rival PeopleSoft Inc. this morning by upping its offer by nearly 22 percent. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced that it will raise the price it is offering for PeopleSoft stock to $19.50 per share, up from $16 per share. The revised offer […]

NEW YORK—Gateway Inc. this summer will release a new four-way server and storage devices as it continues to try and be a larger player in the enterprise space. The server, which has yet to be named and is due out in August, will be the fifth system rolled out by the Poway, Calif., company since […]

As enterprise IT customers await resolution from Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid for enterprise resource planning software developer PeopleSoft Inc., the companies themselves remain steadfastly committed to their positions. While the fate of the deal is in the hands of PeopleSoft shareholders, Oracle last week mailed them the official tender offer, which expires July 7. […]

Identify Softwares Appsight, which already pinpointed the cause of problems in Windows applications, now does the same for J2EE applications. The software, which became available last week, monitors Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition applications and records data from users desktops through the technology stack down to an applications base code. When a problem occurs, IT […]

As IBM rolled out new enterprise application integration products last week that work with its high-profile middleware, startup Quantum AI Corp. readied its own EAI software offering that leverages middleware from IBM and other big developers. The goal of both companies is to better meet enterprises needs for connecting disparate applications and technologies and automating […]

J.D. Edwards, at its Quest User Conference last week, rolled out an upgrade to its namesake Supply Chain Management software suite targeted to automate more of the business processes of its manufacturing and distributor customer base. Among dozens of feature enhancements is an updated Engineering Project Management module that aggregates information on products made to […]

Major IT developers are rolling out hardware and software to help retailers better track customer purchasing patterns. On the hardware front, Hewlett-Packard Co. at the Retail Systems Conference in Chicago last week introduced the rp5000 POS (point-of-sale) device. The appliance is designed to withstand the rigorous front-end retail environment with such enhancements as hardened cooling […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. at its Quest User Conference this week rolled out a broad slate of upgraded software targeted to automate more of the business processes of its manufacturing customer base, including those that use the iSeries server platform. Key upgrades in J.D. Edwards 5, due next quarter, revolved around supply chain management and […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. Thursday said it is suing Oracle Corp. and two of its executives for allegedly interfering with its proposed acquisition by PeopleSoft Inc. Denver-based J.D. Edwards is asking for $1.7 billion in damages, the value of its deal with PeopleSoft. The suits were filed against Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., Oracle CEO […]

Linux is making cash registers ring, and not just for Red Hat Inc., SuSE Linux AG and other distributors of the open-source operating system. Retailers of all sizes are investigating the use of Linux on POS, or point-of-sale, systems to provide some flexibility in their software deployments and lower operating costs by avoiding licensing fees. […]

To stay nimble, manufacturing companies want to be able to modify their products quickly if partner specifications or customer demand changes. Getting a change order from the sales or customer service division to the engineering group and then to the shop floor usually presents a software integration challenge. The size of parts is modified, the […]