Ex-HP chief Fiorina to pen memoir
Carly Fiorina has reached a deal to pen a memoir about her dramatic career, which was put on hold in February following her departure from Hewlett-Packard after a turbulent five-year run as the...
View ArticleSun releases open-source JavaServer Faces code
Sun Microsystems has recently open-sourced the code for its implementation of JavaServer Faces (JSF), its framework for building user interfaces to Java-based Web applications.
View ArticleMicrosoft, JBoss link up
Bowing to market realities, Microsoft said it will begin working with an ideological foe, open-source development and services company JBoss, on optimizing interoperability between JBoss' middleware...
View ArticleIBM works toward replaceable biometrics
Biometric security systems have one particularly critical vulnerability: how do you replace your finger if a hacker figures out how to duplicate it? An IBM research team working on that problem says...
View ArticleIBM pushes Workplace forward with aid of development tool
IBM has released Workplace Designer 2.5, a development tool it hopes will help users bridge the gap between its legacy Lotus Notes/Domino architecture and the Workplace platform IBM has declared is the...
View ArticleOracle CFO resigns
Oracle has lost its chief financial officer for the second time this year. The company announced last week that Greg Maffei will leave later this month, to be replaced by Oracle co-president Safra Catz.
View ArticleEx-Oracle CFO Maffei moves to Liberty Media as CEO
Oracle's erstwhile chief financial officer, Greg Maffei, will soon take on the chief executive officer (CEO) job at investment company Liberty Media The appointment, announced Wednesday, removes some...
View ArticleBEA buys Enterprise JavaBeans developer
BEA Systems has acquired Java tools maker SolarMetric, a small, private company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
View ArticleSAP readies Mendocino for user testing
SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. are about to release to 40 early-adopter customers the first version of their jointly developed integration product, code-named Mendocino.
View ArticleVendors release SOA programming model
A group of top software vendors recently gathered to unveil a new specification they hope will simplify application development within SOA (services-oriented architecture) environments.
View ArticleCA buys IT support software maker Control-F1
CA has acquired Control-F1, an IT-support automation software maker based in Calgary, Alberta. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
View ArticleSAP launches long-awaited on-demand CRM
SAP has made its long-awaited dive into the hosted, subscription customer relationship management on demand market, launching a new software service with a starting monthly price tag of $US75 per user....
View ArticleSupport upstarts promise to halve costs
For users of business applications, it’s the annual maintenance fees that make the software really expensive. With that in mind, a handful of third-party support services firms are trying to lure IT...
View ArticleWeb 2.0: through the looking glass
As the web evolves into a more collaborative platform, the technologies and business models involved in that transition are being swept up into the “Web 2.0” rubric, a term vague enough to encompass...
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