Clint Boulton

IBM Tuesday launched a new 32-processor mainframe targeted at a select group of new and existing high-end customers in the financial services industry.The highly-anticipated zSeries z990 server, known for months to the computing world as T-Rex, was unveiled at a launch event in San Francisco. As previously reported, the z990 features much more power than […]

Computer maker Gateway said it is making progress on its designs to become a broader provider of information technology products and provided financial guidance in an annual investors meeting Thursday. In an aggressive move to return to profitability and regain market share, the Poway, Calif. firm said it would roll out 15 new consumer electronics […]

SOAP Version 1.2, whose progress had been hindered last year by intellectual property concerns, has advanced to the next crucial stage in its rite of passage, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Wednesday. SOAP 1.2 is a lightweight protocol meant for exchanging XML-based, structured and typed information on the Web. SOAP , or Simple […]

HP turned the afterburners on its push to corral more high-end computing market share Tuesday with the unveiling of its “Adaptive Enterprise” strategy. At the heart of this wide-ranging play lies utility computing services and software. The initiative, a broadening and deepening of its adaptive infrastructure strategy on the one-year anniversary of its purchase of […]

Business software maker PeopleSoft Tuesday embraced Linux when it agreed to port its enterprise applications to Linux running on IBM hardware and software. In the strategic agreement with IBM, for which duration and financial details were not made public, PeopleSoft will use IBM eServer xSeries, DB2 Universal Database and WebSphere Application Server as the foundation […]

In the ongoing effort among software developers to bridge the gap between the .NET and J2EE languages, Borland Software this week unveiled a tool for development teams to build applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework that are integrated with software based on J2EE and CORBA languages. The J2EE/CORBA tool for writing applications for .NET, called […]

Most software experts agree the vital cog to facilitating Web services development is XML, but not everyone out there thinks Microsoft, IBM and myriad other vendors use XML as the flawless cure-all. Cambridge, Mass.-based Clear Methods is aiming to do something about the drawbacks of XML, and it has come up with a language and […]

IBM Thursday introduced new software to help enterprises more effectively manage their IT budgets, a major new initiative under its on-demand strategy. The software products cover virtualization technology for storage and grid computing and adds more capacity-on-demand capabilities. IBM will discuss the new offerings Thursday at its annual analyst conference in Palisades, NY, where company […]

EMC Wednesday upgraded its PowerPathsoftware to help customers better move the data in their storage networks.PowerPath improves application availability, performance and management between servers, switches, and storage. The Hopkinton, Mass. firm announced this latest step in the evolution of its AutoISstrategy, adding volume management, multi-vendor array support, and other features to its data transmission software […]

IBM Monday took the wraps off its new application server for its zSeries operating system. The new software comes equipped with the latest support for J2EE and Web services standards, as well as a variable pricing scheme previously unavailable for the zSeries.The first upgrade of its kind since WebSphere V4 was released some two years […]