Clint Boulton

Dell Wednesday expressed its faith in open-source computing like never before and expanded its pacts with vendors Oracle and EMC .Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison joined Dell CEO Michael Dell onstage at the Pierre Hotel to discuss how the two companies had inked a global sales agreement to implant Oracle databases and application servers […]

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has made progress in its endeavor to combine two technologies whose purpose is creating lively Web documents. The group issued the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification, which is geared to fuse the DOM and XPath technologies, which are often inconsistent with each other. DOM is the application […]

It took only two days for Microsoft to decide it didn’t like what it saw out of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Services Choreography working group earlier this month. Then it high-tailed it out of there, leaving stunned group members in their wake. According to a W3C spokesperson, the working group for WS-Choreography, which […]

The American Electronics Association Wednesday released a report which found that more than half a million U.S. citizens lost their high-tech jobs from January 2001 to December 2002. Specifically, 560,000 workers employed at high-tech firms such as HP, IBM, or Lucent were laid off in the two-year period that saw the storied dot-com bubble burst. […]

Microsoft made good on its pledge to offer its own self-managing computer tools Tuesday when it unveiled new software to ensure that servers and PCs run more smoothly.The idea behind self-managing software is that it governs computer systems to maintain balance. For example, computers and networks often experience an ebb and flow in traffic, or […]

Web services software has been heavily hyped for two years, but realistically, how much good are the products unless there is software to manage them? The focus of the niche is to make sure that computers communicate with one another more smoothly, but what happens when a breakdown occurs in that communication? Generally, systems fail. […]

In another indication that high-tech powers are not always on the same page where Web services are concerned, Sun Microsystems this week blasted Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and TIBCOfor publishing their own specification for Web Services reliability. Sun, along with Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sonic Software, publisheda Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification in January 2003. […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Monday said it has begun the second phase of testing for the Storage Management Initiative(SMI) (née Bluefin). In development for a couple of years, SMI was created by SNIA members to facilitate interoperability across disparate storage systems, regardless of vendor. The standard is largely seen as the saving grace […]

Computers that can think for themselves? It’s an old question, albeit not a fair one. Computers are programmed. They do what they are programmed to do. But IBM is looking to change some of that thinking with a philosophy that enables machines to manage and improve their own operations with little or no tinkering from […]

IBM enhanced its WebSphere Business Integration software portfolio Monday, adding the modeling and monitor assets of its Holosofx acquisition from last Septemberto make it more attractive for the enterprise.Business integration software combines various functions — such as customer relationship management (CRM) and order processing — to ensure that business processes flow across a value chain, […]