Stories about: PeopleSoft

Working in IT isn't always pretty. After all, we can't all work on the cutting-edge technologies all the time. Some of us have to get dirty -- in some cases, literally.

Last week's billion-dollar acquisitions by Oracle and Sun jolted the middleware market, and raised some new concerns for enterprises pursuing service-oriented architecture deployments and considering the use of open source code to flesh them out.

Oracle has entered into a "definitive" agreement to buy leading middleware vendor BEA Systems for approximately US$8.5 billion, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

Two California men are facing 20 years in prison on charges they hacked into a California state university's PeopleSoft system to change their grades.

A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed.

I'm actually beginning to picture a day when users start to ask their IT departments why they can't run Ubuntu Linux at work, the way they do at home.

Web server survey site Netcraft's recent report may have indicated Microsoft's IIS is gaining ground over the venerable open source Apache HTTP server, but version 7.0 is promising to take the challenge to the next level.

EnterpriseDB is releasing an upgrade to its database software next month, hoping to lure customers away from Oracle with the promise of lower license fees and compatibility with applications written for Oracle's database.

Oracle will fix a number of products, including the Oracle Database, Application Server, and E-Business Suite, next week as it releases its quarterly batch of security patches.

Users of Oracle 9i and 10g database products have been promised a pain-free upgrade to the next generation, 11g, due for release in the second half of 2007.

Rumors are swirling yet again that Oracle wants to get cozier with Linux and at least one financial analyst says customers can expect a tighter Linux-based appliance from the database and application vendor by the end of the month.