James Niccolai

The mobile phone industry is looking for ways to make wireless data services more attractive to businesses and consumers, but a lack of useful applications and other obstacles are making their goal harder to achieve, a panel of industry executives said here last week.

Sybase Inc. has appointed a former Hewlett-Packard Co. executive to lead a new business unit intended to help boost its position in the market for software used to develop and integrate enterprise applications.

BMC Software Inc. has announced upgrades to five of its SmartDBA management tools for Version 7 of IBM Corp.'s DB2 mainframe database, along with two upgrades for the distributed, UDB (Universal Database) edition of DB2.

BMC Software Inc. on Monday will announce upgrades to five of its SmartDBA management tools for Version 7 of IBM Corp.'s DB2 mainframe database, along with two upgrades for the distributed, UDB (Universal Database) edition of DB2.

Hewlett-Packard Co. in January will deliver the next version of its Alpha processor, an important architectural upgrade that will carry it through to the chip family's planned retirement in about 18 months, an HP executive said Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will bundle a basic edition of Oracle Corp.'s application server software with systems running its HP-UX operating system, part of a joint marketing and development effort to be announced by the companies Tuesday at the OracleWorld conference here.

SAN FRANCISCO - Red Hat Inc. has been working with Oracle Corp. to improve the desktop version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, with a view to providing an enterprise-class environment that will run Web-based versions of Oracle software applications, Red Hat's chairman and chief executive officer said Sunday.

Sybase Inc. recently released a new version of its portal software, Enterprise Portal 5.0, which offers updates intended to make the product easier to use for both developers and end-users. The company also introduced two lower-end editions of the product.