Paula Musich

Although clients are looking for business value from professional service providers, those same providers are relying on pricing discounts to win new business, according to the second part of a study released last week by the Information Technology Services Marketing Association. The ITSMA study on services pricing found that two-thirds of technology companies are selling […]

In the early days of IBMs Services Organization, executives such as Sam Palmisano brashly claimed that their unit would someday make up half of IBMs revenues. Now, with services veteran Palmisano taking over the companys top spot next month, that lofty goal is well within sight. However, new pricing pressures and other market shifts could […]

BMC Software Inc. last week launched an initiative to extend enterprise management functions to Linux. Linux is among several high-growth areas targeted by the Houston-based management software provider as part of a restructuring of its research and development division, also announced last week. Other high-growth divisions include storage, security and enterprise resource planning management for […]

InCert Software Corp. today announced the release of a new application fault management tool that straddles the development and production sides of custom applications. The Halo Application Fault Management Monitor can be used both in the testing cycle of application development as well as in the production mode to search out bugs and other application […]

Computer Sciences Corp. yesterday reported earnings of 51 cents per share on revenues of $2.9 billion for its third quarter of 2002. The El Segundo, Calif., IT consulting and outsourcing firm saw its revenues jump 9 percent over the same quarter last year on the strength of the global commercial IT outsourcing market. For the […]

Computer Associates International Inc. on Wednesday threw the weight of 23 new products behind Linux, further fueling its momentum as an enterprise-ready platform for mission critical applications. The new CA Linux offerings bring CAs total to 54 either shipping or in beta testing. The products are distributed across CAs six major focus areas, including enterprise […]

Although clients are looking for business value from their professional services providers, those same providers are relying on pricing discounts to try to win new business, according to a study just released by the Information Technology Services Marketing Association. The ITSMA in the second part of its study on services pricing, found that two-thirds of […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. last week announced a new performance tuning service for complex production systems and a set of best load testing practices designed to accompany new consulting services. The Sunnyvale, Calif., vendor created the ActiveTune service to help clients optimize the performance of their complex, multitiered production systems. The service leverages Mercury Interactives professional […]

Two-year-old Moonlight Systems Inc. will move in on large enterprise management software players turf early next month when it raises the curtain on a line of software management tools of its own. The new Moonlight3 automation software combines intelligent software distribution and flexible administration methods in a tool set that works across multiple platforms to […]

BMC Software on Wednesday will launch its initiative to extend enterprise management functions to Linux. Linux is one of four high-growth areas targeted by the Houston management software provider as part of a restructuring announced last week. The Linux initiative calls for BMC to extend its enterprise management tools to manage Linux production environments ranging […]