Matthew Hicks

The woes of the fixed wireless industry have taken their toll on Hybrid Networks Inc. The San Jose, Calif., company, which develops and makes fixed wireless systems sold to telecom providers, is planning to cease operations by the end of April. Hybrid announced the move late last week after failing in its efforts to find […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – Oracle Corp. is taking the skills it learned hosting its enterprise applications in the Oracle.com ASP and applying them to a broader base of potential customers – anyone who uses the Oracle database. The company this week will introduce a new service to manage companies Oracle namesake database and application server […]

Polycom Inc. on Thursday introduced a new IP desktop phone that includes easier access to common telephony features and supports Cisco Systems Inc.s IP telephony architecture. The SoundPoint IP 500CS phone is based on open standards and supports Ciscos AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) platform and CallManager IP telephony system. It is […]

Another major IT market research firm is decrying database pricing practices at Oracle Corp., saying that the software companys sales people are imposing extra license fees on some of its clients. Gartner Inc., of Stamford, Conn., this week warned its clients of tactics by Oracle sales people that include making customers choose more expensive pricing […]

Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp. are taking steps to make unstructured XML data fit as comfortably as traditional structured data in their respective data management systems. Oracle is working on an update to its 9i database that will allow XML documents to be stored natively alongside relational data without transforming it into columns and […]

IBM this week will announce a technology preview on its developerWorks Web site that demonstrates features of up-coming data management products that use XML and Web standards for data integration. The preview, an outgrowth of development work in a project code-named Xperanto, provides a scenario of how a newly merged bank and financial services company […]

3Com Corp. late Thursday reported a net loss for its fiscal third quarter that was slightly lower than the loss in the same quarter last year but double that of the second fiscal quarter of this year. The Santa Clara, Calif., networking company lost $236.1 million, or 67 cents a share, in the quarter ended […]

A leading IT market researcher is advising its clients to fight attempts by Oracle Corp. to seek extra license fees for its popular database in a dispute over what constitutes a user in its licensing contracts. Meta Group Inc. announced the move Tuesday after its analysts have spent the past four weeks attempting to get […]

Oracle Corp. will enhance its flagship 9i database with the ability to store, manage and query XML documents within the same database as relational data. The companys initiative to support XML in 9i, called Oracle XML DB, will be a standard part of Release 2 of 9i, which is due for release this spring. While […]

Smart, tough negotiating can force it vendors to make concessions, especially in times like these. But haggling alone can get you only so far. To get the best deals, IT managers must also go into negotiations armed with accurate data on the software and hardware assets they have and how theyre using them. Putting people […]