Author: Renee Boucher Ferguson

The hoopla around Oracle’s ongoing lawsuit against rival SAP has left a gaping hole for customers questioning the value of major application vendor support. Oracle

Microsoft is giving notice that they plan to directly challenge Salesforce.com’s online application marketplace, AppExchange, and on-demand programming language and platform, Apex. Microsoft announced at

Microsoft’s pricing for its Dynamics Live CRM is undercutting the competition by about half, and partner compensation for on-demand sales is about 20 percent less

At an analyst day event in January 2005, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison sent a stern warning to rival SAP.It was just a month after Oracle’s

SAP is getting ready to fire back at rival Oracle, the last salvo in a bitter competition that was most recently fueled when Oracle filed

Powering the stellar fourth quarter numbers Oracle announced yesterday—total revenues up 17 percent to 5.8 billion, beating the Street estimate of $5.6 billion—is an acquisition

Oracle’s June 21 announcement of a massive new business unit geared to the needs of the financial markets raises as many questions as Stonehenge. None

Microsoft has reached the halfway point in its three-year march to converge four enterprise resource planning suites into a common technology platform. But it’s still

BOSTON—Despite the obvious differences in technology interests between Gen X, Gen Y or the upcoming Gen Alpha, there seems to be a common thread in