Clint Boulton

MySQL AB Tuesday said it has inked a technology and cross-licensing partnership with SAP AG’s database project in a play that can potentially catapult MySQL into the enterprise limelight. MySQL will take commercial ownership of SAP’s SAP DB and become a global technology partner of SAP AG.The deal, for which financial terms were not made […]

IBM christened the integration of its Power4+ chip architecture across its Unix server line Wednesday by releasing a new pSeries machine for the low-end of the market. The move to the Power4+ from the Power3 architecture is IBM’s bid to offer enhanced performance at a reasonable price, something rivals HP and Sun Microsystems have been […]

New license software revenue for relational database management systems (RDBMS) decreased 6.9 percent in 2002, totaling $6.6 billion in 2002 from revenues of $7.1 billion a year earlier, according to Gartner, who just completed a worldwide study. So much for all of the hype about data management software. Though databases are traditionally a strong revenue […]

In the interest of helping to ensure software continuity for customers, IBM Wednesday married Linux clusters and blade servers to offer a pre-packaged “supercluster.” The idea is to pack as much power as possible in as small a space to improve system manageability, a challenge for blade servers.To do this, Armonk, New York’s IBM has […]

Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTSI) Wednesday released two new Unix machines for the entry-level market that feature the high-end capabilities of mainframes, which analysts say make them the most powerful machines for the low-end market. FTSI’s Primepower 250 and 450 models are high-performing servers with smaller footprints than comparable machines from rivals IBM, HP and Sun […]

Big Blue Tuesday drew the curtain on its first software products from its purchase of Rational Software — two new toolsgeared to help development teams write business applications and systems together. Both tools are geared for software automation, an increasingly important ingredient to helping enterprises meet their software needs on-demand, a business model IBM is […]

HP Monday launched the next version of its HP-UX operating system and took a another step in what experts say is a challenging, long-term attempt to migrate its software from PA-RISC to Itanium architecture, which is expected to triple high-end system performance over the next three years. In issuing its first update to its OS […]

IBM has come to terms on pricing for its DB2 Information Integrator software and plans to formally launch the product at its IBM Software Symposium next Tuesday.DB2 Information Integrator software is tailored to help customers integrate information in multiple locations as if it were stored in one location. It is platform-agnostic, allowing business to manage […]

IBM Wednesday moved to shore up its on-demand e-business strategy Wednesday by buying privately-held software maker Think Dynamics for an undisclosed sum.Toronto’s Think Dynamics makes software that addresses computing demand peaks and system failures by allocating resources at the right time before a system is stalled. Also known as orchestrated or dynamic provisioning, this technology […]

IBM Wednesday moved to make its collaboration software more attractive to customers in a increasingly competitive market with the announcement of WebSphere Portal’s Collaboration Center, a destination with such perks as instant messaging, Web conferencing, and people finder tools.Enterprise portals let employees, business partners and customers access information, collaborate and communicate across disparate systems in […]