John Pallatto

Joe Davis, former head of PeopleSofts Customer Relationship Management division, has joined Coremetrics Inc. as president and chief executive officer. Davis said Wednesday that he left PeopleSoft at the end of February after working two years as group vice president and general manager in charge of marketing and development of PeopleSofts CRM applications. However, Davis […]

With the third edition of its online application server, released Tuesday, Microsoft has substantially strengthened the business-to-business, e-business and data integration features of BizTalk Server 2004. But the package still has a long way to go before it has the broad enterprise-scale features of its key competitors, IBMs WebSphere and BEA Systems WebLogic. The key […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Economic globalization and the overseas migration of service and information industry jobs is a fact of life, said Computer Associates CEO Sanjay Kumar to the Software 2004 conference here on Monday. The executive added that protectionist economic policies arent going to solve the problem.. The job of virtually anyone who “works behind a computer […]

The Department of Justices decision to file suit to block Oracles hostile bid to buy out PeopleSoft has driven a wooden stake through the heart of this misbegotten deal. But there likely will be plenty of frantic thrashing about until the buyout offer is finally laid to rest for good. Rather than simply throw up […]

On the face of it, Comcasts unsolicited $54 billion buyout offer of the Walt Disney Co. conjures up painful memories of some of the failed turn-of-the-century mega-mergers. Comcasts deal-making and vaulting ambition to become a media giant is uncomfortably reminiscent of the dizzying ascents of WorldCom and AOL-Time Warner. WorldCom used the Internet investment bubble […]

Comcast Corp. on Wednesday launched a bid to become one of the largest media and entertainment companies in the United States with a $54.1 billion unsolicited offer to buy the Walt Disney Co. Industry insiders said the move will let Comcast expand its holdings from the increasingly competitive cable-networking market and phone business to control […]

It appears increasingly unlikely that Oracle will succeed in its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, even if it gets the green light from government regulators in the U.S. and Europe. Thats because it is now highly doubtful that Oracle will be able to persuade anywhere near a majority of stockholders to toss out the current PeopleSoft […]

SAN DIEGO—Customers attending Oracle AppsWorld here this week said they want to see evidence that Oracle Corp. has a coherent long-term vision for enhancing its own products regardless of whether it ever succeeds in buying out enterprise application software rival PeopleSoft Inc. Customers said they have seen little evidence that Oracle has been distracted in […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Oracle Corp. on Tuesday said it plans to release a new version of Oracle Warehouse Management in the summer season that will support radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic product code (EPC) features. Oracle officials discussed the new Warehouse Management features at this weeks Oracle AppsWorld conference here. The new Oracle Warehouse Management […]

Adobe Systems got a bit of a black eye when the company recently acknowledged it complied with a request from government treasury officials to add a feature to its flagship PhotoShop graphics production software that blocks users from making copies of major international currencies. The news has caused a considerable stir among PhotoShop users who […]