Clint Boulton

FEATURE At a partnership announcement with Dell Computer in New York City back in April, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stood alongside his fellow CEO Michael Dell and discussed how the Linux open source operating system was stealing market share from Microsoft’s Windows products. In the future, he asserted, Microsoft would be all but irrelevant by […]

J.D. Edwards filed a $1.7 billion suit against Oracle and its two top executives in state courts in Colorado and California Thursday — the same day that Peoplesoft formally rejected Oracle’s unsolicited $5.1-billion bid.In its lawsuit, J.D. Edwards is claiming that Oracle and the plaintiffs “tortiously interfered” with its proposed mergerwith PeopleSoft, which was announced […]

Enterprise software providers struck back at Oracle Monday, calling the database provider’s surprise $5.1 billion cash offer to buy rival enterprise software company PeopleSoft a power play to be resisted. “I believe an Oracle acquisition of PeopleSoft raises such serious antitrust problems that it will face months of investigation by both the United States Department […]

Oracle Monday joined rival vendors such as Borland in introducing new ways to develop applications for Java with Oracle9i JDeveloper Version 9.0.5.The development environment is based on the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company’s new Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework that provides a flexible foundation for designing and creating J2EE […]

In a hostile takeover bid that could reverberate across the software industry, database giant Oracle offered to purchase all outstanding shares of enterprise application company PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash.The bid comes just days after PeopleSoft moved to acquire mid-market applications provider J.D. Edwards in a $1.7 billion stock bid. It also follows Invensys’ […]

Hardware server vendors continue to undercut each other in terms of price while they try to outdo each other in terms of server performance. Sun Microsystems Tuesday became the latest outfit to wage an assault on rivals HP and IBM when it pared prices on its entry-level, Sun Fire V480 and V880 models by as […]

When PeopleSoft moved to acquire rival J.D. Edwards Monday, it marked the latest in a series of mergers between software vendors, but it also jogged the competitive landscape in the market for selling business application software to customers.Analysts said that while the deal presents a significant upside for PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and their customers, who […]

A research firm specializing in covering the data storage industry said there are definite upsides to all of the red tape and heightened concerns behind accounting and other regulations in the market — about $6 billion worth of upsides. The Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Storage Group has conducted a study on the impact compliance has on […]

IBM Monday ratcheted up its database software line with the introduction of a new suite that automates the process of defining, describing and indexing information contained in the database.Called Cube Views (formerly code-named Aurora), the new business intelligence middleware uses algorithms to automate the creation of online analytical processing (OLAP) metadata so that it can […]

PeopleSoft Monday agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion in stock, a move that shakes up the market for business applications software.The deal makes PeopleSoft the second-largest business software provider to Germany-based leader SAP as PeopleSoft will gain new access to mid-market application customers to add to its large market customer base. […]