John Pallatto

How Microsoft Windows 3.0 Dragged the IBM PC into the Graphics Age by John Pallatto There really was a Windows 1.0 Few people actually bought the first edition of Windows that Microsoft introduced in 1985 for the first generation of Intel 8088 PCs that limited people to running programs in no more than 640K (that’s […]

With the approach of its SapphireNow international user conference, SAP had been signaling for months that it would be ready to announce the release of the long-delayed Business ByDesign on-demand enterprise resource planning package for midsize companies. But there was marked confusion as the SapphireNow conference convened May 17 in Orlando, Fla., and Frankfurt, Germany, […]

Oracle issued on May 17 a new edition of MySQL Enterprise, the first major upgrade of the open-source relational database since Oracle completed the acquisition of MySQL’s former parent, Sun Microsystems. But the release will do little to assuage the suspicions of MySQL users and open-source community members that Oracle won’t give the database full […]

Seeking to add new mobile application and cloud computing technology to its portfolio, SAP on May 12 agreed to pay $5.8 billion to acquire Sybase, a database and mobile enterprise software company. The acquisition will bring major new revenue streams and strategic technology to help SAP to stay competitive with archrival Oracle. Prior to the […]

Since SAP named Bill McDermott and Jim Hagermann Snabe co-CEOs in February, industry analysts and media have been speculating whether the new management regime would be able to reverse the sales and profit slowdown that had deviled the enterprise software company in 2009. The answer came April 28 when SAP reported double digit sales and […]

SAN FRANCISCO-What Salesforce.com has done for enterprise sales professionals with its Sales Cloud applications and for custom business application developers with its Force.com platform it will now try to do for the burgeoning community of enterprise Java software developers. Salesforce has teamed up with VMware to create VMforce, a secure, highly scalable cloud development platform […]

SAN FRANCISCO-The latest edition of SugarCRM’s open-source CRM package, released as a public beta April 13, includes a revised UI designed to deliver speedy, simplified navigation along with improved mobile accessibility, company officials said. Sugar 6, which was introduced during the company’s SugarCon user conference here, is scheduled to become available to a subset of […]

IBM on April 7 launched a major push to win over new system integration partners, especially integrators specializing in Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems hardware with the introduction of two new server models including an x86 Unix System and a System z mainframe scale system. To sweeten its pitch, IBM is planning to spend up […]

Oracle is introducing the first major new release of the Tuxedo application server since it acquired the technology with the buyout in BEA Systems in 2008.Tuxedo 11G, redeveloped as part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11G, serves as an SOA-ready system that supports the development and deployment of C/C++, COBOL, Ruby and Python development languages. […]

Seth Ravin, Rimini Street’s president and CEO, says his company’s countersuit against Oracle claiming among other things “defamation, disparagement, trade libel and unfair competition” is a sign that Rimini Street is not going to “allow a larger company to simply intimidate us” out of a lucrative market for third-party enterprise application maintenance and support. Rimini […]