Fired CEO Craig Conway will receive $16m in cash and two years worth of stock options and PeopleSoft's executive vice president of products and technology, Ram Gupta, gets $950,000.

With the introduction of a beta version of Google Desktop Search, the search giant is staking a claim for PC users' desktops. The new tool indexes a computer's entire hard drive, and returns these items, along with traditional Web-based items, when searches are pe...

As part of its continuing, voluntary initiative called Take Costs Out of integration, Pervasive is offering a free webinar next month that will use Pervasive customers' own accounts, on how Pervasive allowed them to realize successful systems integration. Mike H...

'Software is more complex than a cotton gin or whatever else you might typically invent in a bricks and mortar world,' argues Groklaw.net Editor Pamela Jones. 'Software and patents don't belong together,' Jones maintains.

The two-week trial in the Delaware Chancery Court over PeopleSoft's anti-takeover defenses began yesterday with a bang, with PeopleSoft director Steven Goldby testifying that CEO Craig Conway was fired on Friday over concerns about his 'situational ethics.'

Sun's Calvin Austin is one of the busiest people in the Java world these days, but in this exclusive interview with JDJ's Yakov Fain he talks about Java 5 - J2SE 5.0, formerly known as 'Tiger' - which was officially released yesterday. Find out more about Java 5, ...

For anyone who's been asleep in a cave for the past 16 months, we bring here a quick reprise of the hostile takeover story so far, from its beginnings in 2003 to the current $7.7 billion bid.

Ten times previously Oracle has extended the deadline for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to takeover, so why not do it an eleventh time?

Former Computer Associates executives Sanjay Kumar and Steve Richards both made their plea in court yesterday in arraignment proceedings in a federal court in Brooklyn presided over by Judge I. Leo Glasser. 'Not guilty,' both men told Judge Glassner.

Sanjay Kumar, the former chairman and CEO of Computer Associates, was charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice in an indictment unsealed yesterday. Former CA executives, led by Kumar, 'betrayed the trust of the board, Computer Associates shareholders, an...

In the kind of brain drain not seen for a while in Silicon Valley, newly-public Google Inc. is hiring key technologists left, right, and center - including away from Sun, BEA, and Microsoft. Speculation is increasing that the 'Project X' the new recruits are being...

As many companies recognize the drawbacks and costs in supporting their own Virtual Private Network (VPN), they are turning over support of these systems to companies like Infonet. Infonet's global network, which can be accessed from 180 countries, provides peace ...

Microsoft's clear it may lose sales now to Linux; Apache 5.5 has been unveiled; and the world's largest permanent grid has gone online. A selection of what's being written, said, and thought about Internet technologies, e-commerce, networking, security, storage an...

Google has acquired one of the foremost minds in modern i-technology, and it knows it. If the search colossus, or anyone else, is in any doubt, just read what he had to say recently about the bloated nature of full-blown Web services, versus the simplicity of XML over HTTP.

The record profit made in connection with an IPO, namely the 698% rise on the first day of trading for VA Linux in December 1999, is a record which will probably stand for some time, says the New York Times in its look at the Google IPO, which it calls 'messy' befor...

While individuals who share copyrighted material through services like Morpheus may be guilty of copyright infringement, the US Court of Appeals ruled today that Web sites that host such forums and companies that distribute peer-to-peer file-sharing software are n...

More than 9 million Googleshares changed hands within the first few minutes of trading this morning as GOOG stock, hardly surprisingly, became one of the most actively traded stocks on the Nasdaq. Shares gained more than 17 percent, to $100 at the open.

Google's offering price is now expected to be between $85 and $95 per share, and the IPO will be declared 'effective' starting at 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time today - that's a lower price range and a delay of 24 hours.

If all goes according to plan with its innovative Dutch auction-style IPO, Google Inc. could shortly - under the symbol 'GOOG' - start trading on the Nasdaq. The search giant might price its shares within an hour of having its registration statement declared 'effe...

Some companies, if they sought to enter the market for providing consulting services for shipping and logistics companies, would ramp up slowly. Not IBM. Instead, the New York-based company has just agreed to buy two Danish companies - Maersk Data, the computer ...

Windows 'SP2' - the new XP Service Pack 2 - is 'the cod liver oil of software upgrades: nasty but good for you,' writes BusinessWeek's technology correspondent in his latest column, winning easily our Best i-Technology Quote of the Week Award.

Time, after another busy i-technology week gone by, for a brief round-up of some of the main stories that we carried across the various SYS-CON.com Web sites this week.

Time, after another busy i-technology week gone by, for a brief round-up of some of the main stories that we carried across the various SYS-CON.com Web sites this week.

According to the CEO of a leading interoperability solutions company, .NET developers can henceforth write their programs once in .NET 'and have them work anywhere Java works.' That, anyway, is what Jim Stewart - of Michigan-based Stryon - claims.

In China, 700 pornographic Web sites have just been taken down in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing municipalities and Liaoning and Guangdong provinces. The Chinese Ministry of IT wants to make the Internet 'green' - by which it means, simply, porn-free for its 87 ...

In anticipation of Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2, Computer Associates announced that it has added security updates to its eTrust security management solutions for both consumers and corporate customers.

BEA's chief software architect is jumping ship from BEA Systems - which he joined in 2001 when BEA acquired Crossgain. His next employer: Google, Inc.

The United Nations' official telecommunications agency is aiming to make spam and Internet porn a thing of the past by 2007. The news emerged from a meeting being held in Geneva this week by the International Telecommunications Union, bringing together regulator...

The anger expressed by politicians and workers over high-tech jobs lost to India and other low-wage countries is really a distraction from the real threat, according to the president of research firm Strategy Analytics. 'Looking forward, we don't really see the bi...

This week, for his invention of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee received $1.2 million from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The amount represents the first ever Millennium Technology Prize, which recognizes technological innovations of lasting benefit to soci...

'The legal standards set by the Commission's decision significantly alter incentives for research and development that are important to global economic growth,' said Microsoft's associate general counsel yesterday. He was announcing Microsoft's appeal against the ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was in fine form at the 13th annual World Wide Web Conference, running this week in New York. He gave a keynote address yesterday devoted to the successor to the WWW, namely the 'Semantic Web.'

The dotcom 'meltdown' might not be quite what it seems, according to Java's creator, James Gosling. He has been drawing attention to a recent commentary pointing out that even the most exhuberant of Forrester projections about online retail sales has turned out to...

Microsoft's Antivirus Award Program, the $5 million fund to reward people for coming forward with information about those who release major worms and viruses, scored a major success when the Sasser culprit was brought to book at the weekend.

According to the latest figures from Google, 95% of all queries to Google come from systems running Windows, 47% from those running Win XP, while alternative browser technologies remain essentially flat-lined, with a trivial market share - though it should be reme...

Macromedia reported its quarterly earnings yesterday, with net revenues of $102 million, a 22 percent increase compared to the $83.6 million reported for the same period last year. Net revenues for fiscal year 2004 were $369.8 million, a 10 percent increase compar...

As anticipated Web-wide since last week, Google just filed for its IPO - a $2.7 billion offering that ranks as one of the largest ever. Last year's profits, according to IPO papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, were $105.5 million on revenue of ...

Sun, Scott McNealy has said, will be 'uniquely advantaged' by its inter-operability agreement with Microsoft. Naturally enough the industry is eager to learn further details of how and when. It's all 'great in theory but worth nothing until it happens,' says one prominent commentator.

According to the very latest reports, the Google IPO is just days away from being announced. The company is due to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission any moment, says the news agency Reuters.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology magazine publisher, announced today that its WLDJ has applied for BPA membership. BPA International will track circulation for WLDJ based on demographic and geographic coverage. The upcoming May 2004 issue of WLDJ ...