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Tools Get a Better Handle on Messaging

Several vendors are set to roll out new products at this weeks DemoFall show designed to help businesses simplify the use of messaging and...

Analysts: Oracle-IBM Integration May Shake Up Apps Market

SAN FRANCISCO—At Oracles OpenWorld user conference here on Monday, Charles Phillips, Oracles co-president, opened with a keynote address highlighting the companys Fusion strategy—middleware, applications...

Analysts: Microsofts Latest Move into Identity Management Could Signal Smart-Card Renaissance

Analysts said Microsoft Corp.s Monday acquisition of a public-key identity management developer may herald an upsurge in the use of smart cards by enterprises...

HP Inks Deal to Acquire Peregrine Systems

Hewlett-Packard Co. continued its string of software acquisitions on Monday when it announced a pact to acquire asset management and IT service management provider...

When Is VaporWare Not VaporWare? Hardly Ever

The software industry has for years had a proud tradition of announcing product long before an actual product existed—vaporware, in other words: software specs...

Oracles Phillips Vows Lifetime Support in OpenWorld Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO—Far into the future—or even into the misty reaches of forever—as long as one PeopleSoft customer wheezes over his beloved human resources application,...

Access to Data No Longer the Weakest LINQ

Twenty-one years ago, the first formal software recommendation that I ever wrote was an in-house memo recommending our companys adoption of a 2-year-old product...

Siebel Denies Early Demise of CRM OnDemand

Siebel Systems Inc. officials denied market predictions this week that its hosted customer relationship management application service would have a short life span in...

Ellison Settlement Invites Cynicism

There are so many different things wrong with Larry Ellisons being able to make a $100 million charitable donation to settle allegations of insider...

Mozilla Readies Another Firefox Security Makeover

The Mozilla Foundation has shipped release candidates for a new version of its Firefox Web browser to provide a thorough fix for a known...