Stacy Cowley

IBM Corp. picked up new document management technology for its content management portfolio through the acquisition Wednesday of Green Pasture Software Inc., a small software developer based in Corvallis, Ore. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it is tweaking its organizational structure, merging its enterprise hardware and software unit with its services group to form one new division called the Technology Solutions Group.

Starting in early 2004, PeopleSoft Inc. will unify the pricing models for its Enterprise software line and the EnterpriseOne line built around the applications it picked up through its August acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co. - a change that will alter the licensing structure J.D. Edwards customers are accustomed to.

Pivotal Corp. postponed until December a shareholder vote scheduled for last Friday on its pending acquisition by an investment firm planning to merge the company with another customer relationship management (CRM) software maker, Talisma Corp.

The SCO Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride is incorrect in his contention that his company has a non-compete agreement with Novell Inc. that will be violated if Novell completes a planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG, Novell said in a written statement this week.

Customer relationship management (CRM) software maker Pivotal Corp.'s board of directors rejected Tuesday a last-minute acquisition proposal from Hong Kong-based Chinadotcom Corp. unit CDC Software, setting Pivotal's shareholders up for a Friday vote on the takeover scenario the company has been pursuing for the past month

A California judge rejected large portions of Oracle Corp.'s motion to dismiss PeopleSoft Inc.'s lawsuit against it for libel and unfair competition, leaving the suit free to proceed.

Microsoft Corp. has reportedly approached Google Inc. about a potential buyout of the search technology company.