Thor Olavsrud

The fourth quarter of 2002 was a good one for Germany’s SAP ; for the first time it outsold arch-rival Siebel Systems in terms of reported customer relationship management (CRM) licenses, with 17 percent year-over-year growth for SAP versus Siebel’s decline of 37 percent. SAP also continues to lead the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, […]

NEW YORK — In 2003, distributions and the kernel no longer take center stage at the LinuxWorld Expo New York. These days, as Linux continues to gain traction in the enterprise, the show is more about how vendors can help customers leverage the platform to streamline infrastructure requirements and lower total cost of ownership. Perhaps […]

Whether you’re talking about potential revenue or the cost savings that can be realized by Linux implementations, keynote speakers at the LinuxWorld Expo on Thursday were eager to dispel the popular notion that the open source software means unviable business models. IBM , which used Sam Palmisano’s keynote at LinuxWorld 2001 ago as an opportunity […]

IBM , one of the first firms to champion Linux as an enterprise platform, opens LinuxWorld New York this week with a series of new offerings intended to extend the platform’s reach into the financial services, insurance and retail industries, among others. The new offerings span IBM’s software and hardware lines, and also include a […]

With a host of new gadgets in tow, and a break to get trashed and trash talked by Shaquille O’Neal in a game of Midtown Madness III played over the Xbox Live network, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates kicked off the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Wednesday evening. […]

Apple , trumpeting the success of its iCal calendar program, Thursday unveiled an update, and also launched iSync 1.0, an updated version of the synchronization software for Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PalmOS devices, and Apple’s iPod portable digital music player. The announcement comes on the eve of a major product initiative, which the company unveils each […]

Sun Microsystems won a key victory in its antitrustsuit against rival Microsoft Monday, when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that requires the Redmond, Wash.-based software titan to include a Java Virtual Machine, or JVM , in its Windows XP operating system. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based networking giant filed suit against Microsoft in the […]

Microsoft and IBM got a little closer Friday, when Microsoft unveiled the Outlook 2002 Connector, a software add-in that that lets users of IBM Lotus Domino Release 5 messaging server use the Outlook 2002 client for e-mail. Developed with IBM’s support, Outlook 2002 Connector is the first Microsoft-developed connector for Outlook and Lotus Domino. “Many […]

Microsoft Thursday unveiled a new .NET Web service: a new version of its MapPoint mapping service that integrates XML Web services technology to allow developers to tie the service into their applications as well as on mobile devices. With MapPoint .NET Version 3.0, Microsoft aims to turn its mapping software into a platform for mapping […]

Provo, Utah’s Novell Wednesday delivered the first product in the Destiny roadmap for its eDirectory software: a UDDI server with support for secure identity management. Novell said its Nsure UDDI Server will allow businesses to register Web services and make them available to internal or external users, while leveraging the security and management capabilities of […]