IBM attributed its success to improved partnering efforts and growing strength of integrated platforms. “It’s an outflow of our focus around partners over the past year,” said Scott ...

IBM's WebSphere franchise led the overall field with about $2.5 billion in revenue for 2004, up 8.7 percent year over year. Its market share inched up to 37.2 percent from 36.3 percent in that time ...

If you've ever been to a bullfight in Madrid, you know it's a savage, bloody affair that brings out waves of nasty human emotion. The cascade of cruelty begins with the picadores who seek to enrage ...

As the software layer between the operating system and applications, middleware is a huge market. Gartner research says that in 2004, the application integration, middleware (AIM) and portal market in ...

Swedish midmarket ERP (enterprise resource planning) software maker Intentia International AB plans to standardize around IBM Corp.’s middleware software, which will be embedded inside Intentia’s ...

IBM extended its industry-specific middleware efforts Monday, introducing four software packages aimed at the health care, life sciences, retail and telecommunications sectors. IBM's strategy stems ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Boosting its e-business software holdings, IBM on Tuesday said it will buy CrossWorlds Software, a vendor of enterprise application integration software, for about $129 million in cash. IBM plans to ...

IBM Thursday announced it has acquired for an undisclosed amount application monitoring software maker Cyanea Systems. In the deal, the Oakland, Calif., company will operate as part of IBM’s ...

IBM said today that it has acquired Gluecode Software Inc., a start-up developer of open-source infrastructure software. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. El Segundo, Calif.-based ...

During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well ...