John Pallatto

IBM on Tuesday released a new WebSphere business process modeling tool that is designed to make it easier for enterprises to discover how their business processes work and how they should build IT systems that automate those processes. The WebSphere Business Integration Modeler Version 5 is based on open development standards including the Eclipse universal […]

IBM and Computer Associates made the best moves they could this week to revitalize the use of relational database technology that would otherwise just languish on the market, according to analysts. IBM disclosed at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it is giving the open-source software development community access to its Cloudscape relational database by donating […]

For the past three years people have asked when will the IT industry recover from the 2000 bust only to be told again and again that they would have to wait until at least the second half of the year. It is now the second half of 2004 and it looks like the recovery that […]

In mid-July, stock market analysts and computer industry pundits came to Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., seeking guidance on how the enterprise software market was going to grow during the rest of 2004. While Oracle Corp. was among the software companies that reported healthy sales and profit growth in the second half of 2004, […]

Performance problems reported at major Internet search engines were not the result of a direct denial-of-service attack launched by the latest variant of the MyDoom worm, anti-virus researchers said Monday. The latest version, variously named MyDoom.M, MyDoom.M@mm or MyDoom.O, is slightly different from earlier versions because it uses the search engines to verify and locate […]

Pity poor Judge Vaughn Walker. He sat through four weeks of often tedious testimony as Oracle and the Department of Justice sliced and diced the enterprise applications software market for his consumption. Its now up to him to decide whether Oracle Corp.s $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. should be permanently banned because […]

SAN FRANCISCO—After a four-week trial, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker showed on Tuesday that he still had distinct doubts about the Department of Justices definition of the “high-function” enterprise software market. This definition is key to the governments effort to prove that Oracles $7.7 billion bid to buy out PeopleSoft would violate antitrust law. Both […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–Viewing Microsoft as its most fearsome future rival, Oracle will continue to make strategic acquisitions that bolster its suite of enterprise application software and data management tools, company CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday. “Why do we fear Microsoft? They sell a lot of products,” Ellison said. “The more product you sell, the less […]

The Department of Justice and Oracle on Tuesday released final post-trial briefs summarizing the contents of detailed “conclusions of law and fact” that both sides filed July 8. Submission of the briefs sets the stage for closing oral arguments scheduled for July 20 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The government is seeking a […]

Oracle announced Monday that it is yet again extending the expiration date of its $21 per share tender offer for all of PeopleSofts common stock to Aug. 27. Its current offer was scheduled to expire at midnight Friday. Oracle Corp. has extended its offer every one to two months while it has been fighting a […]