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 ...

As the two giants buy up other providers, IT may see higher costs -- and the cost of switching providers is often even worse Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either ...

Playing to his company’s software strengths, IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner Monday pronounced Phase I of the e-business era to be over, and that Phase II will see the rise in strategic importance of ...

Ruthven says: ‘Looking at the application environment dealing with databases, user log-on, security and messaging middleware vendors ended up with various scenarios and a big mess.’ Each developer has ...

PeopleSoft Inc. is deepening its ties with IBM Corp., announcing on Tuesday a sales and development partnership it called the most significant enterprise applications alliance in the companies’ ...

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 ...

They are the leaders in supplying the hardware that powers the world’s information infrastructure. And now all three are turning to software and services to boost margins and growth amid the declining ...

Sales of application integration, middleware and portal software rose to $6.7 billion in 2004, up 5.8% on the previous year. According to analysts at market watcher Gartner application integration and ...