Clint Boulton

IBM plans soon to release a new version of its pSeries 630 that is powered with its most powerful chip to date, the Power4+ processor.Karl Freund, vice president, IBM eServer pSeries, claimed the addition of the Power+ chip would make the p630 the most powerful entry level 4-way server on the market, with as much […]

Lindows.com, the firm who developed a desktop version of a Linux operating system to lure customers from Microsoft’s Windows OS, has designs on becoming a bit more it seems — a full-fledged maker of personal computers. The San Diego, Calif., company introduced two company firsts Thursday at the Desktop Linux Summit — a Linux-powered laptop […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Oracle Wednesday pledged to pad their long-standing storage-oriented relationship with new endeavors in technology, services and support, as well as sales and marketing, to lure enterprise customers. Financial terms of the bolstered alliance were not made public. HDS, a Hitachi division who works closely with Oracle to make sure that […]

Hungry to regain market share lost to HP and IBM, Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled its highly-anticipated Sun Fire V1280, a new midrange, rack-mounted Unix server available in four to 12 processing unit configurations. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based computer systems manufacturer also unveiled its blade servers for the first time, a faster, cooler UltraSPARC III 1.2Ghz […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday is augmenting its Java platform by adding support for Web services technologies in its pending Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4.Sun has full support on tap for the ” Basic Profile” specification, which was published by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to ensure that Web services component technologies, such […]

Hoping to regain market share lost to competitors HP and IBM in the high-end storage space, EMC Monday debuted its highly-anticipated new line of Symmetrix storage servers supported by a new architecture.The Matrix and the event in NYC The Symmetrix DMX series is based on what the Hopkinton, Mass. storage specialist calls a “revolutionary” Direct […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday unveiled the roadmap for an initiative to create a complete platform to help vendors develop wireless services, such as messaging or gaming, for mobile phones. Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI), also known as Java specification request (JSR) 185, the plan was hashed out by the Java Community Process developer’s group […]

Hoping to get its fingers deeper into Microsoft’s touted .NET platform, Borland Software Monday became the first to license the Windows .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Widely regarded as the last major independent software development tools vendor left after IBM moved to acquire Rational last December, […]

HP Wednesday said it will introduce new storage consolidation and business continuity hardware and software to make data storage and disruption recovery easier and less expensive. The Palo Alto, Calif. firm, which will make the announcement official at the HP ENSA@Work conference in Amsterdam next Tuesday, said the new products are part of HP’s Enterprise […]

Microsoft late Friday agreed to pay up to $1.1 billion to settle class-action lawsuits brought by California businesses and consumers who claimed the company had overcharged for software.The Redmond, Wash. software concern, who admitted doing no wrongdoing in the case, said the settlement will be paid out to up to 13 million California businesses and […]