Jonathan Schwartz has been the heir apparent of Scott McNealy's at Sun Microsystems Inc. for some time, but many had doubts when he took over as president and chief operating officer of the struggling vendor in 2004 that he was the right man for the job.
Microsoft is working on an online storage service that appears to be aimed at a service called Gdrive in development at Google according to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans.
Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison is considering the release of Oracle's own version of Linux after realising the purchase of one of the two major Linux vendors was not cost-effective, according to a story in the Financial Times.
Microsoft has agreed to buy privately held business intelligence specialist ProClarity as part of its strategy to develop a BI portfolio.
SAP will not "cannibalize" its enterprise software business to support the burgeoning software-as-a-service trend, but it will branch out beyond hosted CRM (customer relationship management) to offer other applications on-demand, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Henning Kagermann said Thursday.
Google Inc. has come another step closer in its quest to become a Wi-Fi wireless LAN service provider in San Francisco.
Lucent Technologies has filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement over technology used in its Xbox 360 game console.
In a move some think has the potential to stall the adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard, Microsoft has joined the V1 Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface group within the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), a Washington-based organisation.
Now that Microsoft has finalised Windows Vista's six editions, the challenge at hand for the company is to encourage customers to upgrade once the new operating system is available.
Dell has confirmed that it has lost a services deal with Philips that was valued at up to US$700 million (NZ$1.05 billion).
Microsoft is testing a new Web-based service that will allow parents to control their children's online activity and block access to sites that are not appropriate for kids.
Microsoft Corp. is set to unveil on Thursday its long-awaited branding, packaging and pricing for the next version of Office, which is expected to be available later this year.
The sales of Windows Media Center Edition notebook computers in the U.S. retail market had their biggest surge yet between the end of December and the end of January, as prices for the laptops dropped drastically, according to new research by Current Analysis Inc.
Lenovo Group has joined the race to release laptops with built-in wireless broadband technology.
Despite a recent outage of his company’s hosted CRM service, Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff says the company has made significant infrastructure investments to support its most ambitious release yet.