Stacy Cowley

IBM Corp. has released its DB2 Express midmarket-aimed database software, with a price tag that's around half of what IBM initially estimated for the product.

If Oracle Corp. succeeds in its bid to acquire PeopleSoft Inc., users are in for a rough transition, industry analysts said Friday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. would like to marry its forward-looking "adaptive enterprise" strategy with an IT vision that's a blast from buzzwords past: thin-client computing.

Following the industry trend of cutting costs through international outsourcing, PeopleSoft Inc. plans to open a new development and support center in Bangalore, India.

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium said Tuesday it has ratified version 2.0 of the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Web services specification, an important step toward finalization of the widely awaited, significantly expanded 3.0 version of the standard.

IBM Corp. has released new WebSphere Portal collaboration features, based on technology from the company's Lotus software line. Demonstrated earlier this year at the company's Lotusphere conference, the new features will be included in future releases of WebSphere Portal, and are available now to licensed users as a free download.

One week before its long-awaited launch of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Corp. rolled out a new umbrella brand for its array of server software.

Several months after announcing plans for a .Net integrated development environment (IDE) to compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net, Borland Software Corp. elaborated this week on its intention to offer a complete suite of .Net application development tools.