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PeopleSoft’s Changes Don’t Faze Its Partners
PeopleSoft Inc. has been fighting a hostile takeover bid from Oracle for 15 months, and then on Oct. 1, the company’s board of directors unexpectedly fired CEO Craig Conway. What are PeopleSoft’s partners making of all of this? For the most part, PeopleSoft‘s partners aren’t making much of it at all. They believe that it…
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Play it Again, Sam
It wasn’t exactly a huge integration project. In fact, it was tiny, but not as tiny as its budget. I had to upgrade the computing environment in an office so that it would handle a lot bigger workload. In this case, the job was to replace PCs with something much better to handle changing requirements,…
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HP Moves to Quell Supply Chain Issue
Hewlett-Packard Co. executives have crisscrossed the country in recent weeks to assure customers and investors that the problems that resulted in the company’s troubling third-quarter financial results are in the past. However, some skeptical users and industry analysts are taking a wait-and-see view of the situation—which cost HP’s Enterprise Storage and Server Group $400 million…
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PeopleSoft Fires CEO Conway
In the wake of a 15-month-long battle for its life, PeopleSoft Inc.’s board of directors fired CEO Craig Conway Friday morning. The board cited “a loss of confidence” in Conway’s ability to guide the company. The company’s founder and chairman, Dave Duffield, will replace Conway as CEO. Kevin Parker and Phil Wilmington will act as…
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Pay-Per-Use Computing: Will It Fly?
Back, somewhere before the dawn of time, when I first got involved with computers, computing resources were incredibly expensive. On the big iron machines that I first encountered, the cost of use was so high that users were allotted and billed for CPU seconds. And the cost per second could be quite significant. Of course,…
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IBM Enhances Transaction Monitoring Tool
IBM will launch Friday a new version of its Tivoli transaction-performance monitoring product that greatly expands the range of application transactions it can track. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance Version 5.3, in addition to a deeper view into the performance of WebSphere application transactions, adds the ability to track transaction performance across BEA WebLogic…
