Larry Barrett

A day removed from the debut of its first software-as-a-service (SaaS) (define) offering, Business By Design, SAP on Thursday got immediate and what can only be called less-than-enthusiastic feedback from the very people it most hoped to please. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann on Wednesday called Business By Design “the most important announcement I’ve made in my […]

Count Trilog Group among the first of what’s sure to be a deluge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (define) providers emerging from relative obscurity to capitalize on the application-delivery model popularized by Salesforce.com. Trilog Group, a privately held company based in Woburn, Mass., this week launched ProjExec Online, an on-demand project management and real-time collaboration service geared for […]

At the end of an already slow summer buying season, a majority of companies are still not ready to deploy Windows Vista, according to a new survey of 1,600 IT professionals. The survey, which polled members of the ChangeWave Alliance in July, found that 62 percent of respondents have no current plans to deploy Windows […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Executives from seven of the disk-drive industry’s most prominent manufacturers looked into their crystal balls Wednesday at the DISKCON USA conference and offered up a mostly optimistic near-term forecast for the rejuvenated storage device market. No longer solely dependant on the PC market for its drives, demand for mobile devices, DVRs and digital […]

Call it the VMware effect. Venture capitalists looking for the next big score invested more than $1.5 billion in fledgling software companies in the second quarter, according to the latest figures from The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Total venture capital spending rose to $7.1 billion in the quarter, the […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini gave investors, developers and its competitors plenty to digest during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday when he laid out the chipmaker’s faster, lighter and more energy-efficient vision for what he called the “next mainstream.” But before delving into Intel’s ambitious future plans to reduce the idling power consumption […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Saleforce.com CEO Marc Benioff kicked off the Dreamforce 2007 conference Monday by unveiling the particulars of Force.com, the on-demand application development platform the company believes will forever change the way companies develop, design and access business software applications. During his presentation to most of the 7,000 attendees expected at the fifth iteration of his […]

Salesforce.com previewed a major new service initiative it plans to announce at its Dreamforce 2007 conference next week. Force.com is an on-demand application development platform that promises to extend Salesforce’s subscriber base far beyond traditional business software users. It’s not expected for general release until later in 2008. Force.com, which features something the company calls […]

Dell built its business and, until recently, its reputation by keeping things simple. The strategy worked for years with its direct-to-consumer PC model, and now it wants to bring that same cut-and-dried approach to the much more complex and comparatively mysterious world of server virtualization. Dell (Quote), along with dozens of hardware, software and virtualization […]

And so that’s that. Palm on Thursday unceremoniously concluded the brief and uninspiring Foleo era when CEO Ed Colligan announced on the company’s blog that it was canceling production of the poorly thought-out mobile device. Described as Palm’s  first “smartphone companion,” Foleo received less-than-enthusiastic reviews after it was introduced in May during the D: All […]