Renee Boucher Ferguson

San Diego, Calif— Oracle Corp. is fully compliant with the US Department of Justices second request for information, according to Chuck Phillips, Oracles co-president. During a media Question and Answer session at Oracles annual user conference, AppsWorld, held in San Diego this week, Phillips addressed the topic of Oracles ongoing and increasingly bitter battle to […]

San Diego, Calif.—Oracle is focusing on a couple of areas at its annual AppsWorld user conference held this week in San Diego, including information quaility, integration and how the pieces fit together. To this end, Oracle will announce tomorrow its Customer Hub that is, essentially, the companys answer to a formal integration offering. The Hub […]

PeopleSoft entered into a new relationship with Ascential Software last week to embed the latters integration technology in its enterprise performance management software. Ascential replaces Informatica as PeopleSofts OEM provider of application integration adapters. PeopleSoft will use the new software to provide connectors to SAP and Siebel systems, which will enable users to run their […]

Oracle Corp. is working to certify its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications for use with the companys forthcoming Oracle 10g database and application server, which will be optimized for grid computing. Oracle officials said that the beauty of its Oracle 10g technology is that it will allow users to run the companys applications on a […]

Squashing long-held rumors that Ariba Inc. would be acquired—propagated by Chairman and CEO Robert Calderoni in a televised interview last year—Ariba announced on Friday a definitive agreement to acquire FreeMarkets Inc. in a deal valued at $493 million. Under the terms of the agreement, stockholders of FreeMarkets will receive 2.25 Ariba common shares and $2.00 […]

Metaserver Inc. is preparing software that the company says will solve IT development problems specific to insurance companies by providing a template for business process integration. The iConnect product line, which the New Haven, Conn., company will introduce this week, provides templates that enable integration of remote brokers into an IT architecture, officials said. The […]

IDS Scheer Inc. is readying a new BPM tool that the company hopes will extend the appeal of its software beyond application developers to business analysts. Aris UML Designer, a new component in Release 6.2.1 of the companys Aris business process modeling platform due next week, bridges the technology gap between business process design and […]

FreeMarkets Inc. says an upgrade to its ES supply management platform will help manufacturers better manage risk along their supply chains by providing new modules to help companies manage information, requirements, negotiations, suppliers and transactions. ES 4.0, which Pittsburgh-based FreeMarkets unveiled last week, adds two new modules, ES Decision Management and ES Supplier Relationship Management. […]

Business-to-business e-commerce software and services provider Global eXchange Services Inc. announced Thursday the $30 million acquisition of HAHT Commerce. The deal is expected to close next month. HAHT develops demand chain software. GXS, formerly part of General Electric Co.s chain of businesses, operates a huge B2B e-commerce network that manages 1 billion transactions a year […]

The rumors are true. Larry Ellison is no longer a free man and those seeking an eligible billionaire bachelor must look elsewhere. The high-flying co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corp, Ellison wed his fiancé in a secret ceremony last month. Four-time husband Ellison married his long-time partner Melanie Craft at an undisclosed location just before […]