John S. McCright

Microsoft Corp. is moving to make its PlaceWare Web conferencing service a part of its integrated software stack with the release of an update, and it plans to offer stand-alone server software as well. Microsoft Live Meeting 2003, which the Redmond, Wash., company released last week, is an upgrade to PlaceWare Inc.s Conference Center service […]

SAP AG is leading a string of developers rolling out software to let companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. SAP, of Walldorf, Germany, this fall will announce three pieces of software in its R/3 enterprise platform and MySAP Financials software suite for companies working on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, said SAP officials. The company this month will […]

Intel Chief Technology Officer Pat Gelsinger hopes that enterprise IT folks leave next months Intel Developer Forum dreaming about how to set up and manage a completely wireless world … and using Intel products to do it. The chip giant will use the big semiannual confab, which will be held Sept. 16-18 in San Jose, […]

Content management software maker Stellent Inc. plans to boost the capabilities of its Universal Content Management architecture with digital asset management technologies purchased from Ancept Inc. Stellent, of Eden Prairie, Minn., today announced it bought the Ancept technology for $2 million in cash, 100,000 shares of Stellent stock and a future cash payout based on […]

Identify Software is extending the capability of its AppSight Black Box software this week to identify problems in applications built using Microsofts .Net Framework. Black Box, installed throughout an IT infrastructure, records problems, ranging from user actions to source code executions, officials said. Analysis tools in the Identify software spot performance, functional, configuration and user […]

Quovadx Inc., which has quietly built up a stable of business automation and integration software, plans to unify the technology in a major release of its QDX technology platform late this year. QDX X will provide a unified interface to the three technologies that Quovadx gained from three acquisitions—the Cloverleaf enterprise application integration engine gained […]

CRM upstart Salesforce.com has nabbed another executive from customer relationship management software market leader Siebel Systems Inc. San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, which sells CRM and sales force automation software as a hosted service, on Monday will announce that it has hired Dave Orrico to be its senior vice president and general manager of Americas. He will […]

Peregrine Systems Inc. is back. The maker of asset and service management software on Thursday emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection saying it had completed all the requirements of the bankruptcy court. Peregrine came under fire last year when accounting irregularities came to light and the San Diego company had to restate three years of […]

Identify Software Ltd. next week will announce that it is extending the capability of its AppSight Black Box software to identify problems in applications built using Microsoft Corp.s .Net Framework. Black Box is installed throughout an IT infrastructure and it records all sorts of problems from user actions to source code executions. Analysis tools in […]

PeopleSoft Inc. and Oracle Corp. arent the only ERP software makers looking to expand their offerings through acquisition. Recent deals by smaller enterprise resource planning software developers Best Software Inc. and Epicor Software Corp. point to a smaller number of vendors for IT buyers to choose from. Best Software, a subsidiary of The Sage Group […]