Jennifer DiSabatino

Oracle Corp. last week announced back-end collaboration software that the company hopes will compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange.

The next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 11, will be released next May, Microsoft Corp.'s Jeff Raikes, vice president of productivity and business services, announced at the PC Expo/TechXNY conference in New York.

The next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 11, will be released next May, Microsoft Corp.'s Jeff Raikes, vice president of productivity and business services, announced at the PC Expo/TechXNY conference in New York.

Choice Hotels International is doing Web services its own way. The company, which owns the Comfort Inn, Quality Inn and Econo Lodge chains, is updating the property management software it developed in-house five years ago.

The increasing pain of dealing with unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail, commonly known as spam, is prompting new moves to stamp out the unwanted messages. But industry experts warned this week that proposed legislative approaches to the spam problem won't likely succeed without the aid of corporate users.

Sprint Corp. today entered the enterprise instant messaging (IM) market with a hosted, behind-the-firewall service that works on various devices and across carrier networks.

The Campbell Soup Co. has a multitude of intranet sites from which its sales force gets information, many of which are never used. Joe Brand is trying to change that.

Instant messaging has shed its image as a toy for teenagers and gained credence as a bona fide business tool. But IM hasn