James Niccolai

Yahoo Groups, the community message board hosted by Yahoo Inc., remained inaccessible to users late Monday afternoon after a hardware glitch knocked the free service offline for much of the day.

Microsoft Corp. released two developer toolkits Wednesday for building Web services on top of SQL Server 2000, its database product, and BizTalk Server, its software for tying together business applications.

Philosophers have had a bit of a raw deal over the years. So what role could philosophy play in the cut-and-thrust world of free-market capitalism, where the "big questions" tend to revolve around how to make a balance sheet look respectable?

Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle chairman and chief executive officer Larry Ellison said Wednesday.

Oracle plans to ship the next major release of its Oracle 9i database by the end of May, in line with its original plans, an Oracle executive said on Jan. 30.

Quest Software has consolidated several of its Oracle database management tools into a unified product called Quest Central for Oracle, a move that one analyst said could make life easier for database administrators.

Sybase Inc. this week upgraded three products in its business software suite, which includes a wide array of tools and server software for linking business applications within an organization and across different companies.

Oracle Corp. kicked off its AppsWorld conference in Amsterdam Tuesday where it plans to roll out an upgrade to its E-Business Suite that adds new modules for working with channel partners, consolidating customer information, reviewing design projects over the Web and managing business assets, an Oracle executive said.