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Larry Barrett

Larry Barrett is a freelance journalist and blogger who has covered the information technology and business sectors for more than 15 years. Most recently, he served as the online news editor for 1105 Media's Office Technology Group and as the online managing editor for SourceMedia's Investment Advisory Group publications Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and Bank Investment Consultant. He was also a senior writer and editor at Ziff Davis Media's Baseline Magazine, winner of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, and ZDNet. In addition, he's served as a senior writer and editor at prominent technology and business websites including CNET, InternetNews.com, Multichannel News, and the San Jose Business Journal.

SAP Debuts Cloud-Based Collaboration Apps

Desperate to demonstrate it can deliver a worthwhile cloud-based application platform to keep pace with Google, Oracle, Cisco and...

Rimini Street Fires Back at Oracle

Rimini Street, a third-party software support provider, is countersuing Oracle and accusing the software giant of copyright misuse, defamation,...

Oracle Delivers Strong 3Q Earnings, Sales (Update)

Oracle topped analysts' sales and earnings estimates again in its third fiscal quarter thanks to better than expected sales...

IBM Partners Warming to LotusLive in the Cloud

IBM said this week that just two months after rolling out its LotusLive partner program, it now has recruited...

IBM Takes Top Honors in Data Protection

When it comes to protecting personal information, IBM is the top dog among technology companies, according to the latest...

Scareware Most Costly Online Scam: McAfee

Security software vendor McAfee this week launched its new Consumer Threat Alert program, a blog and e-mail subscription service...

SAP Shakes Up Board Following CEO’s Ouster

The reshuffling of SAP's management suite continued Thursday when the German software giant named Gerhard Oswald as its new...

IBM Launches Academic Cloud

IBM plans to make several parts of its extensive software portfolio available in a cloud-computing environment as part of...

Oracle Snaps Up SOA Specialist AmberPoint

Oracle on Monday added another key piece to its Fusion middleware suite, acquiring AmberPoint, a privately held maker of...

IBM Lands Air Force Cloud Computing Contract

IBM on Thursday said it has been awarded a contract to design a secure cloud-computing infrastructure for the U.S....