John Pallatto

Enterprises are getting a new tool for building online special interest communities with the release this week of a social networking platform from Web Crossing. Called WebCrossing Neighbors, the platform will allow different organizations—enterprises, nonprofits or government agencies—to set “private-label social networks,” said Michael Krieg, Web Crossings vice president of sales and marketing. WebCrossing Neighbors […]

REDWOORD SHORES, Calif.—Not content to control half of the relational database market, Oracle on June 14 introduced two enterprise content management products aimed at enabling corporations to move more text documents and other unstructured data into computerized repositories. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database, both new options for the Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, […]

PHOENIX—Intuit continues to expand up-market through its QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 6.0 bookkeeping and financial management package for small and midsize businesses with the introduction of a 20-seat version and a channel marketing initiative. The new 20-seat version allows Intuit to market its product to larger organizations that are looking to move from other long-established accounting […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com took the next logical step toward offering a general-purpose Web application platform with the introduction on May 24 of the AppExchange OEM Edition. The OEM Edition allows independent software developers to build, deploy and market new applications on the Salesforce.com AppExchange platform that are independent of its core CRM (customer relationship management) functionality. […]

RightNow Technologies has decided to follow a buy rather than build strategy to expand its product line with the $9 million acquisition May 22 of on-demand sales automation competitor Salesnet of Boston. “This acquisition means that well be quicker to market with more sophisticated sales products that will interact with out service and marketing products,” […]

There are some unsettling signs in Salesforce.coms latest earnings report that could indicate that the company may not be able to sustain its record of rapid revenue and customer growth quarter after quarter. While the company remains a huge cash generator for its size, it reported a small net loss of $229,000 on revenue of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The Software and Information Industry Association disclosed May 16 that it filed three separate lawsuits in federal district court in Los Angeles against individuals who were allegedly using the eBay auction site to sell pirated copies of popular software. SIIA brought the copyright and trademark infringement suits on behalf of Symantec and McAfee after […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com believes that it will be able to jump-start the deployment of business applications on wireless devices with its small, but strategic acquisition of Sendia on April 11. Sendia, of Santa Monica, Calif., developed a mobile application deployment platform that Salesforce.com officials say will simplify and speed up the process of deploying AppExchange applications […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—SAP will gradually expand its on-demand application offerings, but it doesnt see widespread interest in an on-demand enterprise resource planning suite for midmarket companies, according to Leo Apotheker, president of SAPs Customer Solutions & Operations organization. “In our dialogues that we have with many of our midmarket customers, we dont see any big attraction […]

OAKLAND, Calif.—Determined to grab a large share of the midsize market for enterprise resource planning software before SAP, Microsoft or Oracle have a chance to lock it up, NetSuite April 5 launched Version 11.0 of its on-demand application package. NetSuite launched the new version at the Oakland Coliseum here, home of Major League Baseballs Oakland […]