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PeopleSoft Users Bear Brunt of Merger

As Oracle Corp. begins operations this week with PeopleSoft Inc. well in tow, it will waste little time in executing several changes that will...

Will Partners Get Crushed in Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger?

As Oracles 14,400-strong partner program gears up to swallow the much smaller PeopleSoft partner community, some say Oracles biggest challenge may well be its...

Options Remain for Oracle Layoff Victims

The pain will sharpen soon. Oracle is on the brink of laying off thousands of people from PeopleSofts talent pool.Oracle chief financial officer Harry...

Business Apps Hold Forth on Macworld Floor

SAN FRANCISCO—Tucked away in discreet corners beyond the Apple Mini and iPod shuffle demonstrations at the Macworld conference here are business applications for small...

Microsoft Waves Discounts Under PeopleSoft Users Noses

In spite of having proclaimed itself a noncompetitor during the U.S. Department of Justices trial against Oracle Corp.s takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., Microsoft Corp....

New Business Objects Release Integrates Crystal Technology

Business Objects S.A. announced Tuesday its XI release, the fulfillment of the product roadmap the company laid out after it acquired Crystal Decisions Inc....

IBM Ups Intelligence Quotient

IBM wants to become the dominant player in information management and, to do it, is planning an aggressive push deeper into business intelligence. But...

BI Solutions, Products on Tap

As IBM drives deeper into the intelligence space, steering the strategy is Karen Parrish, vice president of worldwide business intelligence solutions. Parrish sat down...

FormServer Builds and Delivers Rich Surveys

By uniquely using graphics and a drag-and-drop forms builder, BenQ Quask Corp.s FormServer eases the creation and deployment of surveys.Click here to read the...

Pervasive Seeds an Open-Source EcoSystem

A long-time ruler in the realm of embedded databases is busting out of that paradigm and eyeing the enterprise database market, with Mondays announcement...