- Wed Jun 24 1998 Middleware market booming
Worldwide middleware revenue will top $7 billion by 2002, according to a report by International Data Corporation.
- Thu Apr 22 2004 Tibco to acquire Britain-based Staffware
Integration software company Tibco spends $217 million to buy Staffware. The two plan to push further into business process management, a category analysts say is poised for growth.
- Sun Jun 28 2009 Why Oracle will continue to win
Oracle has positioned itself to remain the dominant force in enterprise database and application sales. It's as simple as selling more, more of the time.
- Thu Jul 20 2000 Investing while you wait for B2B utopia
Despite blistering rates of growth and adoption of B2B e-commerce, utopia is still years away. In fact, as industry participants are discovering, the B2B "revolution" is turning out to be more of an "evolution," with progress happening in fits and starts and incremental change occurring in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of way.
- Mon May 16 2005 Check Point on the defensive
Security company faces a licensing pinch. Will a wave of new products catch customers' eyes?
- Wed May 12 2004 IBM continues gains in server software
Big Blue expanded its lead in application servers in 2003, according to a new report made available to CNET News.com.
- Thu Mar 19 2009 Oracle delivers solid third quarter
The software company declares its first-ever dividend to spin off excess cash directly to shareholders, but fourth-quarter guidance was a little lighter than expected.
- Mon Mar 16 2009 Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years
The mission will be to build new areas beyond CRM. Of course, Salesforce.com would be a fine subsidiary of an enterprise software giant like SAP or Oracle.
- Tue Mar 17 2009 Q&A: 10 questions with Salesforce's Marc Benioff
A decade after starting his company, Benioff has defied skeptics and shown his software-as-a-service business model can work. He's not afraid to admit a little unorthodox marketing helps, too.
- Mon Dec 22 2008 Red Hat's third-quarter earnings suggest resilience
The software maker has been hit by the global economic slowdown, but its quarterly numbers suggest it is weathering the storm better than most.

