Renee Boucher Ferguson

As the company Oracle Corp. is trying to compete more handily with acquiring PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG has, by default, taken center stage. And now its taking sides. SAP spokesman Bill Wohl confirmed today that SAP will pen a letter to the US Department of Justice outlining its definition of the software market— one that […]

The U.S. Department of Justices version of the software market is illogical and wrong, according to a response document filed by Oracle Corp. on Friday in the San Francisco U.S. District Court. The DOJ launched a suit against Oracle late last month to block the companys $9.4 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft Inc. Oracles […]

Initially expected at the end of 2003, BizTalk Server 2004 is living up to its name. Its available now, in the first quarter of 2004. Microsoft Corp announced Tuesday afternoon the latest version of its BizTalk integration platform with much fanfare—and a new focus on business process management and integration. This is the companys third […]

Oracle Corp. will indeed turn to Microsoft Corp. for help in fending off the U.S. Department of Justice as it attempts to acquire PeopleSoft Inc.—just as it will turn to others it has named as competitors in the enterprise resource planning applications market. Oracle spokeswoman Jennifer Glass confirmed that Oracle will appeal to archrival Microsoft […]

Iona Technologies PLC.s new Artix Mainframe integration software makes it possible to extend legacy mainframe applications into a service-oriented architecture, company officials said. The application, unveiled last week, exposes CICS or IMS transactions as Web services that are, in turn, accessible to other applications. Mainframe transactions can be made available to other applications—and to developers—to […]

Training and organizational performance software developer RWD Technologies this week will unveil new functionality for its namesake Info Pak tool set. Info Pak is used to document and simulate training practices with software from SAP and Oracle. A new OmniHelp component in Info Pak provides a searchable, context-sensitive help feature from any application that is […]

Shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice announced this afternoon that it will seek to block Oracle Corp.s $9.4 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft, Texas State Attorney General Greg Abbot said he and six other state attorneys general will join the Justice Department. The attorneys general from Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and […]

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will seek to block Oracle Corp.s $9.4 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Corp. Assistant Attorney General R. Hewette Pate will now look to the federal courts to for an injunction blocking the hostile takeover deal on the grounds that a merger between the two e-business applications developers is […]

One size does not fit all when it comes to automating the management of a product through its entire life cycle. Companies are finding they need to carefully select PLM (product lifecycle management) software so that it scales to the size of their project while not providing more features and complexity than is appropriate. The […]

PeopleSoft Inc., like its enterprise application rivals SAP AG and Oracle Corp., is providing tools designed to make it easier for customers to integrate the companys own internal applications with third-party software. PeopleSoft, in Pleasanton, Calif., earlier this month unveiled an adapter to connect a PeopleSoft application with SAP software, as well as technology that […]