John Pallatto

SAN FRANCISCO-After the prolonged legal battle between Oracle and his former employer SAP forced him to keep a low profile for much of the past five months, Hewlett-Packard’s New CEO Leo Apotheker finally emerged on March 14 to tell press and industry analysts about his strategic vision for the company. HP now will move in […]

The latest edition of NetSuite’s OneWorld on-demand enterprise resource management package is integrated with Google Apps, giving customers the option of running all their essential business processes in the cloud. NetSuite OneWorld 2010, released on Sept. 30, is designed for midsize companies that own multiple subsidiaries and include divisions operating in one or more nations […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff have exchanged highly public barbs at the Oracle OpenWorld show the week of Sept. 19 about which company can deliver products and services that adhere to a true vision of what cloud computing is all about. Speaking at the welcoming keynote Sept. 21 […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft rolled out the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 here Sept. 15, claiming that its new browser edition will provide the best performance on the Web by taking advantage of the latest computer hardware, HTML5 and Windows 7. Microsoft is counting on the enhancements in IE 9 to stop the gradual […]

VMware CEO Paul Maritz, speaking at a post-keynote media conference, said VMware acquired the two companies for the value of their technologies to VMware cloud infrastructure plans, not for any significant increase to the parent company’s earnings. The companies include Integrien, a developer of real-time data center performance analytics and management software, and TriCipher, a […]

SAP is promising that its $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase will start to return tangible benefits for customers within the next nine months when the two companies deliver a mobile business applications platform based on open standards that will run on many different mobile devices and operating systems. Three months after announcing its buyout of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Salesforce.com wants to take its new Chatter social collaboration platform that it officially released on June 22 far beyond the realm of the corporate sales and marketing department and put it in the hands of every business user with a need to collaborate. As of June 22, more than 6,000 customers had switched […]

Apple Newton, Compaq, Early IBM ThinkPads Launched Tablet Revolution by John Pallatto The Apple Newton While there has been experimental development on tablet computers for decades, Apple can take credit for introducing the first commercial tablet PC design that was shipped in large numbers, the Apple Newton product line. Development on the Apple Newton started […]

NetSuite on June 10 introduced a new application that will help companies implement the complex new accounting rules covering revenue recognition for product sales that involve a combination of hardware and software. The product, called NetSuite Advanced Revenue Recognition, will automate the process of accurately recognizing and implementing sales involving a combination of hardware and […]

When Microsoft introduced Windows 3.0 on May 22, 1990, it did more than simply roll out a new product, it started the brief era of the rock star PC operating system. Microsoft was so determined to make Windows 3.0 the biggest hit in the PC industry that that it turned the introduction into something more […]