John S. McCright

OEMs and software makers on Monday continued to climb aboard Intel Corp.s Madison bandwagon, while chip-making rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rolled out new versions of its 64-bit Opteron chip. Red Hat Inc. on Monday announced that availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system optimized for Intels new generation of its Itanium 2 […]

Dell is stretching out the high end of its server line with a new high performance computing box that uses the forthcoming Intel Corp. Itanium 2 6M processor, code-named Madison. The Round Rock, Texas, company today introduced the PowerEdge 3250 that officials said could be used for such compute-intensive applications at graphical rendering of special […]

Nervous users of PeopleSoft Inc. enterprise software are making contingency plans in case their major IT vendor is taken over by rival Oracle Corp. At the same time, Oracle is readying plans to make it easier for IT departments to move from PeopleSoft to Oracle applications. Two weeks after Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., made […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. at its Quest Global user conference earlier this month rolled out a broad slate of upgraded software targeted at automating more of the business processes of its manufacturing customer base, including those that use the IBM iSeries server platform. Key upgrades in J.D. Edwards 5, due next quarter, revolve around supply […]

Oracle Corp. executives met with shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc. this week to convince them to buy into Oracles $6.3 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft. Now the executives are meeting with the press to better explain the rationale behind the plan. Two Oracle executive vice presidents are giving assurances that PeopleSoft customers would never be forced […]

Oracle Corp. raised the stakes in its bid to buy enterprise software rival PeopleSoft Inc. this morning by upping its offer by nearly 22 percent. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced that it will raise the price it is offering for PeopleSoft stock to $19.50 per share, up from $16 per share. The revised offer […]

NEW YORK—Gateway Inc. this summer will release a new four-way server and storage devices as it continues to try and be a larger player in the enterprise space. The server, which has yet to be named and is due out in August, will be the fifth system rolled out by the Poway, Calif., company since […]

As enterprise IT customers await resolution from Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid for enterprise resource planning software developer PeopleSoft Inc., the companies themselves remain steadfastly committed to their positions. While the fate of the deal is in the hands of PeopleSoft shareholders, Oracle last week mailed them the official tender offer, which expires July 7. […]

Identify Softwares Appsight, which already pinpointed the cause of problems in Windows applications, now does the same for J2EE applications. The software, which became available last week, monitors Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition applications and records data from users desktops through the technology stack down to an applications base code. When a problem occurs, IT […]

As IBM rolled out new enterprise application integration products last week that work with its high-profile middleware, startup Quantum AI Corp. readied its own EAI software offering that leverages middleware from IBM and other big developers. The goal of both companies is to better meet enterprises needs for connecting disparate applications and technologies and automating […]