John Pallatto

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Ingres is building partnerships and expanding its management team as the company prepares for life totally independent of its former corporate parent, Computer Associates International. The company announced April 4 that it had formed a partnership with IT systems integrator Cognizant Technology Solutions, based in Teaneck, N.J., to support the deployment of Ingres […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The U.S. software industry is losing its dominant position in the global market as India and China graduate far more software engineers than U.S. universities produce, says Ray Lane, general partner with venture capital firm Perkins Caulfield & Byers. U.S. software firms are not only facing more global competition than ever, but also […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said March 30 that the federal government is sensitive to the need to protect citizens privacy rights under the Constitution even as it uses electronic surveillance to ferret out potential terrorist threats. “Its not as if the executive branch is operating without some sort of checks and balances,” […]

SAN FRANCISCO—SAS Institute at its annual user conference introduced on March 27 three new and seven enhanced business intelligence applications designed to give customers tools for performing data analysis that predict trends and uncover potential problems. Headquartered in Cary, N.C., SAS, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary as an independent data warehousing and data analysis […]

Talk in the industry that Time Warner will try to revive its Netscape division by turning it into a social networking hub sounds like another forlorn hope. Diehard Netscape fans can never fully suppress the dreams that Netscape will somehow rise again to regain its rightful place at the top of the World Wide Web. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Microsoft is designing an integrated VOIP and video strategy aimed at allowing a rising generation of inveterate multi-taskers to leap from their usual instant-message round robins into real-time phone conversations and video conferences. Microsofts strategy seems to be based on the belief that using its Windows Live application services to integrate voice and […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Qwest Communications CEO Richard Notebaert on March 15 voiced his companys commitment to “net neutrality,” saying his company would never block traffic or degrade network performance as a way to maintain competitive advantage. But with the next breath Notebaert said that government regulation shouldnt prevent service providers from negotiating “commercial agreements” that allow […]

Salesforce.com has unleashed a beefed-up edition of its custom application development platform that officials say can run entire enterprises, unseating established legacy human resources, Microsoft SQL Server or internally built applications. “Will we displace legacy packaged apps? … We are going to leave that up to the customers,” said George Hu, Salesforce.coms senior vice president […]

Salesforce.com has offered customers additional incentives to work with its AppExchange custom application development platform with the introduction March 6 of what it has dubbed the Unlimited Edition. The Unlimited Edition includes all the features of Salesforce.coms Enterprise Edition, the broad suite of the companys on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) applications along with new services […]

Viewing the software-as-a-service market as a major new-growth industry, IBM is offering a package of services and incentives to help software companies and channel partners deploy their products as hosted applications. Software developers that want to deliver their applications as on-demand services can obtain access to IBM technical architects, take online training courses and obtain […]