Larry Barrett

Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual Iron, admires and respects VMware (Quote). Maybe not so much for the quality of its software — though he won’t bad-mouth it — but for the way it’s impressive initial public offering has brought so much attention to the virtualization software market. But Grandinetti said his company isn’t […]

Bridgestream, which develops software used to map business relationships within an organization, on Friday confirmed that it has become the latest in a string of acquisitions by Oracle (Quote). Ed Zou, Bridgestream’s vice president of marketing, told internetnews.com that both companies will make the announcement official sometime next week. He said the deal was actually […]

IBM on Tuesday rolled out a series of new storage products, including the DS3300, an array that includes Internet SCSI (iSCSI) (define) connectivity with simple installation features tailored for the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) market. Harold Pike, IBM’s entry and mid-range disk product marketing manager, said the DS3300 essentially functions as networked storage incorporating both […]

Oracle (Quote) on Monday announced that eHarmony, a leading online dating and match-making service, is now using the Oracle 10g database to play Cupid to more than 17 million love-starved users. While the actual transition from Microsoft’s SQL Server database software only took an uneventful three hours, the planning, testing and installation took more than 14 […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — For a little more than a year, Denis Browne and a small team of developers and engineers at SAP have been given carte blanche to dream up, tinker with and ultimately deliver an entirely different breed of applications to complement its core business software franchise. This group, which SAP (Quote) calls its […]

When it comes to the business of selling technology, two immutable facts emerge: Past is prologue; and it’s always personal. Just ask Larry Ellison and Henning Kagermann, the stars of the latest and, some might say, most vicious revival of an age-old tale that’s been told and re-told throughout the history of American commerce. This […]

Microsoft announced six companies, including Intel (Quote) and Texas Instruments (Quote), are now licensing its voice software for audio conferencing, video, wireless over IP and gaming devices. The licensing agreements, which were announced Tuesday at the VoiceCon San Francisco 2007 conference, could help put Microsoft in the catbird’s seat as it extends its tentacles to the […]

Can the company that gave the world something as rigid and monolithic as R/3 transform itself into a Web 2.0-savvy alternative for small and mid-sized businesses? The answer could come as early as the end of this year when SAP  finally launches A1S, it’s much-hyped and long-awaited software-as-a-service offering(SaaS) (define) geared for small and mid-sized companies. […]

IT managers scrambling to find new ways to appease the corporate bean-counters should take a long, hard look at all the software residing in their budget-munching datacenters. Fortune 1000 companies routinely spend 30 percent more on datacenter software than necessary—or roughly six percent of the total cost of operating the datacenter—according to a new report […]