Erin Joyce

Despite Oracle’s sweetened offer to acquire PeopleSoft , the enterprise application vendor is pushing to close its $1.75 billion merger plan with fellow application company J.D. Edwards . The company on Thursday said it launched an exchange offering in order to close the deal, which offers J.D. Edwards stockholders cash or PeopleSoft common stock. The […]

IBM is showing no signs of pulling away from Linux support, despite a lawsuit SCO Group filed against it over core code in the open source operating system. Big Blue on Thursday said the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has deployed a new email system running on Linux. IBM said […]

In what is widely viewed as a bid to boost sales of its desktop software suite, Microsoft has dropped the price of its Office XP family of desktop applications and tweaked the terms for its volume licensing program in response to customers’ concerns. Analysts that follow Microsoft pondered whether the step was more, such as […]

A new study from the New York City Council is recommending that the Big Apple throw open the competitive bidding process for its annual $130 million phone and Internet bill in order to leverage one of the most expansive — and underused — fiber optic networks in the country. In so doing, New York City […]

NEWYORK — Businesses will stick to small purchases and minor upgrades according to US Bancorp Piper Jaffray software analysts. Speaking during a panel discussion Tuesday at the investment firm’s technology conference here, the analysts, as well as a networking security consultant, said the biggest reason they expect a spending uptick is because so many IT […]

Enterprise management software maker Computer Associates is joining the on-demand trend by unveiling six new products for its Unicenter suite of software that help customers “dial-in” network management resources as they need. The new products are modules to be used with CA’s Unicenter family of infrastructure management applications that monitor different platforms across a customer’s […]

AT&T is unveiling new enhancements to its metropolitan area network (MAN) services that extend enhanced fiber optic data speeds to businesses, in a move to offer more flexibility to local businesses’ “last mile” data connections. AT&T calls the upgraded package High Performance Access Service (HiPAS), which is geared for large enterprise customers and government agencies […]

Sun Microsystems made strides this week with its Linux strategy, releasing updated Sun ONE compiler code for both its low-end SPARC and Intel’s x86 platforms, and adopting common Linux distributions instead of pushing its own version. But analysts also say the tech giant’s overall Linux approach is still tentative and confusing in places, and needs […]

As Wi-Fi and 802.11 wireless networking grows in popularity among enterprise networks, Sprint PCS jumped into the market Monday with new 3G high-speed data services for business customers and unveiled new enterprise-focused devices running Microsoft’s Windows Pocket PC operating system for smart phones. During the CTIA Wireless trade show in New Orleans, the number four […]

NEW YORK — a, b, a/b, or g? Anyone attending Intel’s new Centrino Wi-Fi-enabled chipset launch Wednesday could not avoid the alphabet soup-like discussions about the different 802.11 wireless LAN networking specifications. At the same time, the chip maker found itself answering critics who questioned why the company sent Centrino into the marketplace wedded to […]