Stacy Cowley

SAP AG is ditching the dot-com from its mySAP.com software, re-labeling the product portfolio this week as the mySAP Business Suite

IBM Corp.'s Lotus software group kicked off its Lotusphere user show in Orlando Monday with a flurry of announcements about upcoming products.

Microsoft Corp. released to manufacturing Tuesday the Microsoft CRM (customer relationship management) software that's had the industry buzzing since its announcement a year ago.

When Microsoft last February announced its plans to enter the CRM market, the initial thinking was that the move could spell trouble down the road for top-tier vendors such as San Mateo, Calif.-based Siebel Systems Inc. But analysts, rivals and Microsoft itself say that for the time being, Microsoft CRM will appeal mainly to low-end users.

Three new PeopleSoft Inc. products debuted Monday, including one for real-time financial data analysis and another for project data tracking.

IBM Corp. will release later this month WebSphere Voice Application Access (WVAA), a tool for developers seeking to voice-enable corporate applications for mobile access.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved IBM Corp.'s plans to sell its hard disk drive (HDD) operations to Hitachi Ltd., removing one of the last regulatory hurdles before the deal's closing.

Massachusetts filed Friday an appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's recent Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement ruling, a case it expects to pursue alone as the other non-settling states accept Kollar-Kotelly's remedy and focus on enforcement, state Attorney General Tom Reilly said during a press conference.