Larry Barrett

Salesforce.com has released a new pay-per-login payment option for users to access applications developed on its Force.com platform. Rather than paying the $50 per user monthly fee for the all-you-can-eat buffet of business applications, customers can now opt to pay $5 per log-in with a maximum of five log-ins each month. The company said this […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.–Eager to start seeing some return on its $6.7 billion splurge for Business Objects, SAP took the wraps off nine new business intelligence and business optimization software packages Wednesday that are designed to give enterprise customers the ability to monitor and respond to business information regardless of the format or application from which […]

Maybe it’s just a cat thing. IBM on Wednesday announced its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) will support the Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, a.k.a. ‘Leopard’ beginning with the mid-year release of the latest version of IDS 11, code-named Cheetah 2. Developers can now download a beta version of IDS Developer Edition from the IBM […]

With the launch of something it calls the Retail Integration Framework (RIF), IBM this week gave prospective customers and its competitors a preview of what it has in store for SOA-enablement (define) in the coming year. RIF isn’t a product but rather an enterprise software architecture, or framework, designed to help fill in the gaps […]

IT outsourcing deals don’t garner the splashy headlines they did just two or three years ago, but that doesn’t mean enterprise customers are suddenly averse to turning to outside providers for help with their most important technology projects. In fact, according to Gartner, worldwide outsourcing spending will grow about 8.1 percent this year to $441 […]

While backers of mobile Linux are all trying to increase Linux adoption, the question for vendors has been which mobile Linux effort they should back among the crowd of mobile Linux organizations. In the case of Trolltech, maker of the popular Qtopia mobile Linux platform, they’ve chosen to move from the LiPS (The Linux Phone […]

Many of the themes that dominated the enterprise software sector this year figure to bleed into 2008 as the industry continues to adjust to the demands of customers enamored with Web 2.0 applications and new delivery models. But is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? One of the more daunting obstacles facing large companies […]

Three months after orchestrating the sale of his company to Taiwanese PC maker Acer, Gateway CEO Ed Coleman announced his resignation. Coleman, who joined Gateway in September of 2006, on Friday announced he will officially part ways with the once-formidable challenger to PC heavyweights Dell, HP and IBM at the end of January 2008. Rudi […]

If and when striking Hollywood writers finally get back to work, they might want to consider drawing upon some of the intriguing storylines that dominated the enterprise software industry in 2007 for inspiration. While there was no shortage of villains, upstarts and old familiar faces to entice viewers, “Software 2007” seems like a can’t-miss proposition. […]

Broadband over power line technologies (BPL) (define) and products will continue to gain momentum in 2007, according to a report issued by market researcher In-Stat, but price, retail availability and the struggle for a unifying standard are preventing widespread adoption. The technology that makes it possible to deliver broadband Internet through existing power lines has been […]