Profile of Charles Babcock
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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.
Articles by Charles Babcock
posted in January 2005
1/28/2005
A new release of OptimalJ allows developers to model the series of application screens users will interact with.
1/28/2005
Company plans to make OpenSolaris available to anyone interested by midyear
1/28/2005
1/26/2005
CEO Ellison says Oracle will compete with application rival SAP in select vertical markets.
1/26/2005
Sun released the first component of its OpenSolaris initiative, but most of the open-source operating system won't be available until midyear.
1/19/2005
SAP acquires TomorrowNow, a supplier of PeopleSoft support services, in a bid to counter Oracle's PeopleSoft integration plans.
1/18/2005
Larry Ellison may be the center of power at Oracle, but John Wookey is leading the make-or-break task of merging the companies' applications.
1/18/2005
Oracle outlined an ambitious program to continue developing Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards applications, as well as create a suite merging all three.
1/14/2005
Oracle is reducing its combined workforce to 50,000 but vows to retain most PeopleSoft product-development and support staff.
1/11/2005
Sabratec's Applinx tool helps transform legacy mainframe applications into Web services.
1/10/2005
Oracle wants to grab a bigger piece of the mobile database market, which is expected to grow to $1.3 billion by 2008.
1/7/2005
Oracle has purchased more than 97% of PeopleSoft's stock, and the application vendor is now a wholly owned Oracle subsidiary.
1/5/2005
Oracle holds nearly 90% of PeopleSoft's stock.
1/4/2005
Imperva, IPLocks, and Lumigent offer software for monitoring who is accessing sensitive data.