Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracles suit against SAP alleging “corporate theft on a grand scale” is off to a bad start – before it even officially begins. The suit, which has already seen one delay in the initial but crucial case management conference meeting, has been delayed yet again. A statement released by SAP on its lawsuit Web site […]

Infor : The $2B Company No One Has Ever Heard Of”> Infor is like the Rodney Dangerfield of the software world. For a company that has amassed 72,000 customers—more than SAP and Oracle combined—has acquired more than 30 companies in the past five years (running neck-and-neck with Oracles much ballyhooed acquisition tally), and realized more […]

In many circles Microsoft might not be considered hip enough or at least too mature now to pull off Enterprise 2.0 or Office 2.0. But eventually having Microsoft and other big technology vendors in the game may give technologies like social networking the legitimacy they need to take hold in the enterprise, according to analysts. […]

Business Intelligence software developer Business Objects announced Sept. 6 an agreement to acquire Fuzzy Informatik, its second “data quality” purchase in 12 months. Business Objects, with dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, plans to combine Fuzzy Informatiks data quality software with its own information management portfolio of products to give customers the ability […]

Calif . Makes Another Run at RFID Regulation”> California legislators have voted once again to derail security and privacy issues with checks on RFID technology, this time with a bill that will prohibit the forced implantation of an identification device—including RFID chips and so-called chipless, invisible RFID tattoos—under the skin. The bill, passed by the […]

The case management conference scheduled to kick off Oracles suit against SAP has been postponed before it even got off the ground. A SAP spokesperson has confirmed that the case management meeting scheduled for Sept. 4 at 2 p.m. PDT in a San Francisco court, was cancelled at the last minute due to the judges […]

Business intelligence software developer Cognos announced Sept. 5 plans to buy Applix for about $339 million in cash. The deal will almost double Cognos customer base and add much needed financial performance analytics capabilities to the companys existing BI suite. Entrenched—and global—ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications providers SAP and Oracle are pushing aggressively into the […]

Citrix Systems, which develops application delivery infrastructure software, announced Sept. 5 that it will buy QuickTree, a small privately held company that creates software to help companies better manage the growing risk of Web services and XML-based applications by providing software that inspects and secures XML traffic. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. QuickTree, […]

While the rest of the United States celebrated Labor Day weekend, Oracle was busy behind the scenes making its latest corporate acquisitions. Oracle announced on Sept. 2 that it acquired Netsure Telecom, of Dublin, Ireland, a company that develops network intelligence, analytics and network data integrity software. Two days earlier, Bridgestream, a company that develops […]

The demand for skilled Business Intelligence developers is outweighing the supply and making it difficult for software companies in this market to find qualified people. Michael Cipriano, Corporate MIS Director at Interactive Data, struggled for four months to find a qualified developer to fill a senior level technical position. The skills Cipriano was looking for […]