Renee Boucher Ferguson

SAN FRANCISCO—Gone, for the moment, at least, is the pulse and presentation of glitz and glam that was so prevalent in past years at Oracle OpenWorld. This years conference at Moscone Center seems to be more about calm reassurance than pumping up the future. While questions surrounding Fusion Middleware – and Oracles potentially pending acquisition […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle is providing additions to its Application Integration Architecture that allow customers to integrate application components to create composite applications and extends the architectures capabilities to partners. Oracles AIA (Application Integration Architecture) Foundation Pack, introduced Nov. 12 during the opening day of its annual OpenWorld conference here also adds communications industry flavored integration packs […]

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants his state to implement what hes calling the most secure drivers license in history. The initiative would enable the state to comply with the federal governments controversial identification mandates and document the million or so illegal immigrants currently living in New York. However, it may be technology rather than […]

A year after its inception, Workday finds itself in a bit of a bind, albeit a bind that companies love to find themselves in. The on-demand ERP [enterprise resource planning] company landed an enterprise-class customer faster than it thought possible, and has had to add functionality to keep up. Workday turned on its services Nov. […]

Hosting services provider NaviSite is hoping to put its five-day-and-counting service outage behind it as early as the evening of Nov. 8. The next step will be to figure out how to mitigate customer dissatisfaction, particularly for those that have been out of business for days. On social networking sites such as Digg.com, customers have […]

Shai Agassi came to fame—in the business applications world at least—at German software giant SAP, where as a latter-stage 30-something-year-old he helped turn the once stodgy company into a trailblazer. The method? Bold strokes in software development that resulted in, among other things, the creation of NetWeaver, an integration and development platform that’s been the […]

As of 12:30 EST Nov. 8, hosting company NaviSite said it was “on track” to bring up more servers online and had about 85 percent of its servers already up in its new data center. The company has been clambering since Nov. 3 to fix a days-long service outage that has put tens of thousands […]

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is among only a few of his peers to come out in support of the Bush administration’s push for strict guidelines for state drivers’ licenses, and is facing strong opposition in his plan to implement Real ID in the Empire State. However, after publicly praising Spitzer’s plan as proactive, it […]

BEA Systems’ financial team is under some serious pressure. The group, working alongside independent auditors from Ernst & Young, is trying to straighten out the company’s financial picture as quickly as possible, a job that is further complicated by the ongoing debate over the BEA’s future and a threatened proxy battle by its largest shareholder. […]

New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer is waging a battle to implement the “most secure” driver’s license in history, against some heavy opposition. But concerns about the technology rather than immigration and political snafus could become its ultimate undoing. Working in concert with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, an old friend from his law […]

Product lifecycle management software developer PTC said Oct. 31 it plans to buy CoCreate Software for $250 million. The deal, which is expected to close in December, will help PTC offer a full range of modeling approaches—parametric, explicit, derived and 2D—to its manufacturing customer base. With the acquisition, PTC plans to broaden its portfolio of […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has put his considerable shares of on-demand software rival NetSuite in a “lock box” to limit his influence on the board, though not on NetSuites potential future owners. According to an Oct. 30 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ellison plans to set aside the voting power of his 639.3 […]