Renee Boucher Ferguson

Following up on increased marketing and development spending for its On Demand hosted services business, Oracle on Wednesday announced it has hired a new executive to lead the On Demand charge. Juergen Rottler, Oracle Corp.s new executive vice president of its On Demand business, comes from Hewlett-Packard Co., where he held the position of senior […]

Oracle on Tuesday announced a 16 percent increase in its first-quarter net income, attributing the gain to demand for its database software, Oracle Database 10g. Total revenue for the quarter, ended Aug. 31, rose to $2.22 billion, a 7 percent increase over last years first-quarter revenue of $2.07 billion. But any gains cannot be attributed […]

General Motors Corp. gets right to the point in its advertisement for H2, the latest version of the mammoth Hummer all-terrain vehicle: “In a world where SUVs have begun to look like their owners, complete with love handles and mushy seats, the H2 proves that there is still one out there that can drop and […]

SeeCommerce Inc. and Oracle Corp. are rolling out upgrades to their respective enterprise applications that give manufacturers the ability to better maintain control when dealing with partners and suppliers. SeeCommerce, of Palo Alto, Calif., last week unveiled Version 5.0 of its SeeChain software that has tools that enable users to maintain control over inventory. Oracle, […]

Over the past year, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina has held up her companys successful merger with Compaq Computer Corp. as a model for the companys Adaptive Enterprise concept. /zimages/4/28571.gifEric Lundquist says HP needs to be more “adaptive.” Click here to read why. But behind the scenes, multiple breakdowns in the massive HP/Compaq […]

Mobile infrastructure management software developer Wavelink Corp. is adding RFID development tools to its middleware platform. The company announced today that its Wavelink Studio and Wavelink Emulation products will be enabled with radio-frequency identification in a way that allows developers to integrate RFID data into existing data collection and supply chain applications and into host […]

The long wait for a decision is over. And Oracle Corp has prevailed. For the moment at least. Judge Vaughn Walker, presiding over the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Calif., handed down his ruling in the U.S. Department of Justices case to block Oracles hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., according to court records released […]

Integration is a key factor with any large ERP implementation and ongoing maintenance, and Oracle Corp. is catching on. At its London-based OpenWorld event this week Oracle announced better integration between its namesake Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control and its Applications Manager that is designed to facilitate more efficient operations with the 11i.10 version of […]

ERP software maker SSA Global Technologies Inc., struggling as many enterprises show less inclination to buy from smaller ERP vendors, is remaking itself and its offerings. After nine acquisitions in three years—including manufacturing ERP providers Baan Co. and Marcam Solutions Inc.—the company provides basic enterprise resource planning functionality as well as add-on modules for tasks […]

During local, state and national elections, the Chicago Sun-Times receives data from various sources in varying formats, as does its competition. With every second counting in the effort to be the first to inform readers of breaking news—particularly with the upcoming November elections—the challenge for metropolitan daily newspapers like the Sun-Times is to be able […]