Larry Barrett

Five months after expanded its policing of counterfeit software applications to Europe, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has filed a trio of lawsuits in Germany and the UK accusing online sellers of hawking stolen or knock-off versions of Adobe Systems’ applications on eBay. SIIA, a trade association representing roughly 500 software and digital […]

IBM this week broke the seal on its largest software development laboratory in North America at a campus located on two sites in Littleton and Westford, Mass. The lab will bring together more than 3,400 IBM employees charged with designing and developing new and more efficient software applications for enterprise customers. “IBM views Massachusetts as […]

IBM this week said it will acquire Coremetrics, a privately held provider of cloud-based Web analytics applications used to analyze customer interactions online to build more effective and timely social media marketing and advertising campaigns. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase dovetails with Big Blue’s strategy to develop or acquire more […]

HP wants to get leaner and meaner to better compete with the likes of IBM, Oracle and Microsoft for a bigger cut of the massive IT services and cloud-computing market, so it’s going to pink-slip some 9,000 employees in its enterprise services unit over the next three years while embracing some of the data center […]

IBM and e-commerce software developer Ariba this week announced a new partnership that will integrate Ariba’s Commerce Cloud Web platform with Big Blue’s collaboration suite to improve communication between online buyers and sellers. The pact comes just days after IBM acquired Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion to bolster its software integration, transaction and cloud-computing application […]

Xerox-owned Affiliated Computer Services this week became the latest IT services company to debut an enterprise service that blends both private and public cloud services though an on-demand delivery model. ACS Enterprise Cloud is designed to support the Vblock infrastructure package, a pre-integrated and pre-tested virtualized data center offering developed by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC […]

Symantec’s acquisition frenzy veered in a slightly different direction this week with the acquisition of VeriSign’s hallmark authentication services unit for $1.28 billion in cash. The service, which provides the security technology to authenticate online payments, instantly gives Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) increased cachet in the enterprise security and e-commerce landscape and allows VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) […]

CDC Software Corp. became the latest software maker to open its wallet for a pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) play, shelling out an undisclosed sum to acquire TradeBeam, a privately held developer of on-demand supply chain visibility and trade management applications. Atlanta-based CDC (NASDAQ: CDCS) said the deal is just part of the company’s strategic evolution away […]

SAP said it will purchase for Sybase for $5.8 billion, giving the German software giant a foothold in the database software market long dominated by archrival Oracle. Sybase (NYSE: SY) shares rocketed up $14.57 a share, or 35 percent, to $56.14 in the regular trading session before adding another $6.96 a share, or 13 percent, […]

IBM this week unveiled the latest update to its SPSS predictive analytics software, giving enterprise customers the ability to monitor and analyze social media data that’s constantly being updated and shared via Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, blogs and wikis. IBM SPSS Modelerpromises to monitor changes in customer and employee sentiments, uncover deeper insights and predict […]