John Pallatto

LOS ANGELES—Web services have matured to the point that they are ready to become mainstream in business application development, not just an experimental “Skunk Works” project, according to industry analysts speaking at an applications integration conference here Monday. Enterprises can expect to productively implement Web services in live applications if they are prepared to make […]

SAP has managed to score some impressive alliances this week that significantly strengthen the companys position as an enterprise applications provider. The announcement that SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. will simplify the interoperability between their respective NetWeaver and .Net Web services development platforms will make it easier for SAP customers to deploy enterprise applications in […]

RightNow Technologies, which markets an online customer relationship management software service, filed registration papers Monday for an initial public offering with a preliminary maximum value of $60 million. RightNow Technologies Inc., based in Bozeman, Mont., reported its first profit of $162,000 in the first quarter that ended March 31, according to the companys S-1 IPO […]

Not to be upstaged by Microsofts WinHEC conference, Intel Corp. on Wednesday showed off some of its current research on advanced technology that will start finding its way into products over the next two to six years. Leading the way were development projects for optical microprocessor interconnects to accelerate processing, wireless sensor networks and server-network […]

It was a wise decision for Tom Siebel to give up the post of CEO of Siebel Systems Inc. in favor of a newly hired outsider. But the move comes none too soon. This is a decision Siebel should have made at least two years ago as the company struggled to deal with the post-2000 […]

The public excitement generated by Google Inc.s announcement that it has filed for an initial public offering that could raise as much as $2.7 billion has also revived unsettling memories of the last dot-com market bubble, which crushed so many fond dreams when it collapsed in late 2000. But there are a number of reasons […]

BERKELEY, Calif.–A Google Inc. executive on Friday told a conference of privacy advocates here that the companys plan to electronically scan messages sent through its new Gmail service so it can link advertising to message content is a necessary tradeoff. “To have free e-mail, you have to have ads,” Nicole Wong, senior compliance counsel for […]

Its a rare occasion when a company decides to create a new position for a deposed corporate chairman, rather than dispatch the big boss to a well-heeled, if early, retirement. Its even more rare for a former chairman to willingly hang around after losing the top job. But that is what Computer Associates International Inc. […]

SAP AG has introduced a new version of its MySAP Supply Chain Management package that supports both RFID and real-time response replenishment. The new RFID (radio-frequency identification) feature is based on SAPs Auto-ID infrastructure, which is a component of the SAP NetWeaver application development and integration platform. This allows MySAP SCM applications to support RFID […]

For far too long, Computer Associates International Inc. has been the poster child for poor corporate governance and accounting fraud in the IT industry. The company has been dogged by an unending saga of lawsuits, proxy fights, federal investigations, executive firings, resignations and retirements–all of it revolving around the honesty of its accounting practices and […]