Infrastructure

Siebel Systems Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired Dublin-based banking software developer Eontec Ltd. to add transactional capabilities to its banking CRM (customer relationship management) and analytics offerings. Siebel paid US$70 million cash for the company, and will pay up to US$60 million more in cash throughout 2005 if revenue and customer-satisfaction targets are met, according to executives.

SAP AG intends to give businesses a real-time view of what's happening to their inventory with an upgrade to its supply chain management (SCM) tools, it announced Monday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pushing a processor technology that it says will let single chips within servers handle multiple tasks at the same time. This will increase system performance by as much as 30 times of today's boxes, the company says.

Being based on the East Coast, I don't get out to Silicon Valley as often as I should.

A team of researchers at Xerox Corp. has discovered a way to print plastic transistors using a semiconductive ink, paving the way for flexible displays and low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, Xerox announced Friday.

Less than six months after taking the reins at 3Com Canada Inc., country manager Bruce Comeau has been laid off in a company-wide restructuring.

Mid-sized businesses have enterprise-size issues and require the same attention as their larger corporate counterparts. That was the message reverberating through the halls during Microsoft Corp.'s annual North American customer last month in Orlando.

Ever heard of the Irish Potato Famine?