John S. McCright

Citrix Systems Inc. at its iForum user conference in Orlando, Fla., this week rolled out a new bundling of its remote access software as well as partnerships with IBM, SAP AG and others. All together these moves reinforce Citrixs claim that it can provide an application access infrastructure that is on par in the enterprise […]

Legislation percolating through Congress looks to ensure that federal law provides copyright protection to owners of commercial databases. The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act as currently envisioned would overturn older, pre-Internet court rulings that generally did not extend copyright protection to databases because they were considered mere collections of facts, not the product […]

Oracle Corp. has introduced a new license scheme that company officials said will give smaller IT organizations a lower-cost point of entry to its database software. Oracle Standard Edition One, available now, is essentially the Oracle9i DBMS limited so that it runs on only one processor. It is priced at $5,995 for an unlimited number […]

A quartet of developers are making available software designed to help companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which covers corporate governance. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., last week rolled out its Lotus Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting package. It combines IBMs WebSphere Portal for integrating various applications and DB2 Content Manager, which acts as a […]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday released the second beta version of its Reporting Services for the SQL Server database, which gives Microsoft partners the ability to add business-intelligence capabilities to applications. Reporting Services pulls relational data from SQL Server and virtually any other type of data (including XML and flat files, for instance) from other sources. […]

Oracle Corp. on Wednesday released a version of its enterprise-class database designed and priced for small and mid-sized businesses. The Oracle Standard Edition One will run on a single processor—a contrast to the big Oracle 10g database that the company introduced last month, which is supposed to scale broadly across a distributed computing grid. The […]

Polycom Ltd. and Tandberg ASA are rolling out upgrades to their respective videoconferencing offerings that the vendors say will improve ease of use and boost video quality. Polycom, best known for its videoconferencing technologies, next week will unveil an entry-level group videoconferencing system with a user interface that borrows ease-of-use features from the cell phone. […]

NetLedger Inc. officials said they believed the recent upgrade to the companys NetSuite hosted ERP offering was so significant that they changed the companys name to NetSuite Inc. The update, NetSuite 9.0, provides midsize companies with functionality typically found in enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and e-commerce software as a Web-based service. Version 9.0, […]

Adobe Systems Inc. is connecting its various illustration, publishing and Web site applications to create what officials are calling a digital desktop for designers. The company on Monday will announce a bundled called the Adobe Creative Suite with new versions of its Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive software. Each application comes with a new feature […]

IBM and Intel Corp. are each readying new blade server offerings with more complete management features in an effort to bolster the idea that blades are more than just thin, rack-mounted boxes. IBM early next year will enhance its Director management software with new features that enable users to automatically launch a virtual session in […]