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Dude, You’re Gettin’ A Car

Larry Dignan August 1, 2003 3:08 pm

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Scott Painter is a car guy. At age 12, he started an auto detailing service. For $40 a pop, he’d pick up your car, drive it around the neighborhood on the sly and deliver a sparkling vehicle back to you. Half of the 14 businesses the

Oracle’s Bid: Style Matters

Larry Dignan July 24, 2003 11:07 pm

NEWS ANALYSIS: Oracle’s bid for PeopleSoft could have turned out differently if CEO Larry Ellison didn’t lose style points in the company’s opening volley. Consider how PeopleSoft customers might have reacted differently to Oracle’s hostile takeover bid if not for this paragraph in the database giant’s initial press release. “Although

August 2003 Online Extras

Baselinemag July 24, 2003 3:07 pm

24/7 SERVICES BTO’s Key Technology Decisions (Topline Online Exclusive) Auto DetailingA look at Build-To-Order’s key technology decisions. PLus: BTO’s new nameplate be a hit among consumers? The PeopleSoft Pursuit Oracle’s Bid: Style MattersOracle’s bid for PeopleSoft might have fared differently if CEO LArry Ellison hadn’t lost style points with his

Who’s Afraid Of Oracle? Not SAP

Tom Steinert Threlkeld July 18, 2003 12:07 am

NEW YORK—With or without the acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle is “not a competitor which really could hurt” SAP AG, said the chief executive of SAP, the largest supplier of software that helps large enterprises manage their operations. Oracle has not increased its share of the enterprise applications market in the

SAP CEO: Big-Deal Era Is Over

Tom Steinert Threlkeld July 17, 2003 2:07 pm

NEW YORK—The big deal is dead. Large corporations are not interested any longer in sweeping, long-term, hundred-million or billion-dollar information system deployments, said Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP AG, the company that dominates the supply of integrated software to enterprises. Kagermann said there has been “a fundamental transformation” in the

IT Execs Distrust Software Mergers

Larry Dignan July 15, 2003 12:07 am

Toyota’s Mike Elsesser is a big believer in best-of-breed software. Elsesser, Toyota’s national technology manager of enterprise data management, says his software infrastructure features Oracle, IBM and Microsoft databases, business intelligence software from Brio Software, Cognos and MicroStrategy, and a slew of other applications. Toyota, like other proponents of the

Quiz: Does My Project Need LAMP?

David F Carr July 11, 2003 7:07 pm

Is open-source software too green to compete against the likes of Microsoft? Fans of the Linux-anchored LAMP “platform” certainly disagree. To learn more about LAMP before taking this quiz, please read this Baseline Primer. 1. My staff is comfortable with Linux and Unix-style programming. DISAGREE     AGREE 1. 2.

BearingPoint: A Rose By Another Name

Joshua Weinberger July 11, 2003 6:07 pm

Bearingpoint 1676 International Drive McLean, VA 22102 (703) 747-3000 www.bearingpoint.com TICKER: BE EXCHANGE:NYSE EMPLOYEES:15,847 Michael J. Donahue Group EVP, COO Helped steer the acquisition and integration of more than 25 consulting businesses, including KPMG Consulting AG’s German, Swiss and Austrian practices. Once ran the firm’s global PeopleSoft consulting practice and,

Yellow Corp. Acquires Tech-Savvy Roadway

Larry Dignan July 8, 2003 4:07 pm

Trucking company Yellow Corp. said Tuesday that it will acquire rival Roadway in a cash and stock deal valued at about $966 million.The deal links two of the largest trucking companies in the transportation industry. The combined company, to be known as Yellow-Roadway, will have combined annual revenue of $6

McDonald’s Wants It Their Way

Sean Gallagher July 2, 2003 3:07 pm

Innovate wasn’t McDonald’s first attempt to capture operational data from its restaurants. Nearly 10 years earlier, in 1991, McDonald’s made its first foray into collecting daily sales data from stores through an electronic register, or point-of-sale, system. But rather than turning to a solution from outsiders, McDonald’s decided to cook