Laura Rohde

The price tag for upgrading the IT infrastructure of the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) could be three to five times higher than the original estimate when the project

PeopleSoft Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President Craig Conway was shown the door on Friday by the company's board of directors, who immediately replaced him with Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft's founder and chairman.

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. officially moved into the search engine market with the unveiling late Tuesday of its Internet search engine, A9.com.

The Chinese government came under heavy criticism on Thursday by two U.S. business groups that are urging China to crack down on its growing piracy market and focus on the protection of intellectual property rights in the country.

Within two months, Oracle Corp. will ship its delayed E-Business Suite 11i.10, packing the new release with 2,100 new features targeting specific industries and general e-business applications.

As Oracle Corp. pushes forward with its hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for US$7.7 billion, it is also sizing up further acquisition options, according to Oracle president, Charles Phillips.

Customers will be able to get their hands on the delayed version of Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite 11i.10 within 60 days, the Redwood Shores, Calif. company announced Monday, at the opening day of its OpenWorld conference in London.

In a continued effort to compete with IBM Corp. and its WebSphere offerings, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced imminent availability of Host Integration Server 2004.