Renee Boucher Ferguson

Beleaguered software maker Peregrine Systems Inc. is in more hot water. The San Diego, Calif.-based company announced today that NASDAQ intends to delist Peregrines stock at the opening of business on July 5. To stop the delisting, Peregrine must request a hearing before the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel. Peregrine officials said in a press release […]

Working hard to garner further industry support for RosettaNet, Microsoft Corp., with the Gartner Group, a research firm out of Boston, Mass., surveyed 18,000 suppliers to find out what some of their basic needs are in moving forward with a RosettaNet implementation. The results are wrapped into Microsofts BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 2.0, to be […]

NEW YORK — Jeff Raikes, group vice president of the Business and Productivity Systems group at Microsoft Corp., sees worker productivity doubling over the next decade, with the help of Microsoft technology. Raikes will outline Microsofts forthcoming information worker productivity innovations – and announce a handful of new tools – in his keynote address later […]

E-marketplace Covisint LLC is looking to help lower the cost of office supplies for car dealers. Unlike its efforts to automate the purchasing of car parts, this new initiative goes back to the roots of business-to-business e-commerce by facilitating the purchase of office supplies and similar commodities. Covisint and The Reynolds Co., a major forms […]

Hoping to increase the ability of companies to quickly and inexpensively integrate small numbers of trading partners, Microsoft Corp. last week shipped Partner and Standard editions of its BizTalk Server 2002. The new editions enable small businesses to take part in business-to-business e-commerce by providing lower-priced software that lets them integrate their internal ordering and […]

The Office of Homeland Security is moving forward with plans to integrate disparate data systems across at least 22 federal organizations to improve communication and information sharing. The office has crafted two high-priority integration programs that are ready to go into pilot phase as early as next month. In addition, the office is working with […]

General Electric Global Exchange Services (GXS) announced today that it is being acquired by Francisco Partners, a technology buyout fund. Francisco Partners, of Menlo Park, Calif., is expected to pay about $800 million for GXS. The transaction is expected to close by Halloween. Including its former incarnation as GE Information Services, GXS has been a […]

In early 2000, Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone left his post to join the new economy. Not a month into the new millennium, he founded Tilion Inc., a supply chain visibility software company. After two years at the helm – and no customer in production to show for his efforts – Stone left Tilion in […]

Solidifying its business integration offerings, Tibco Software Inc. announced Wednesday that the integration of its Talarian products is complete – and with the addition of the Talarian line, it has a complete suite of messaging products. Enterprise application integration software maker Tibco, of Palo Alto, Calif., purchased Talarian in January. In addition to adding three […]

Commerce One Inc. is reshaping itself in the image of a Web services integration software provider. The beleaguered e-marketplace provider turned procurement and collaboration software maker is now redesigning its namesake business-to-business collaboration platform to provide Web services and application integration capabilities. In addition to the new version, called Commerce One 6.0 and due to […]