Clint Boulton

Microsoft continued its juggling act over the naming of one of its most ballyhooed brands this week when it said it was eschewing the .NET name for its pending Windows server in favor of the moniker, Windows Server 2003.The Redmond, Wash. software giant, which has delayed the new Windows server several times, pledged to drop […]

IBM made its first on-demand computing play of the new year Thursday when it extended its vaunted ubiquitous computing services to supercomputing.As with many of its on-demand endeavors, Big Blue is offering customers the option of scaling software requirements out as much as needed, but without the fixed costs associated with most software licensing schemes. […]

Silicon Graphics (SGI) Tuesday revealed servers and software that make it possible for the Linux operating system to tackle massive computing chores. The Mountain View, Calif. firm, known for its development of high-octane supercomputers for life sciences and government markets, unveiled its Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. The systems combine SGI’s supercomputing architecture […]

IBM and networking giant Cisco Tuesday extended their relationship to bring open storage networking products to enterprise customers.Under the terms of the agreement, which were not made public, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM and its partners will have the ability to offer customers Cisco’s MDS 9000 Family products, beginning with the Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director, Cisco […]

Less than a week after its acquisition of IBM’s hard disk drive operations closed, Hitachi wasted little time in christening the new company it formed with IBM’s wares. Tokyo’s Hitachi Monday formally announced its majority-owned Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and unveiled a few new hard drives along with it, including a one-inch Microdrive that houses […]

Tokyo’s Hitachi this week made good on its blockbuster play to acquire Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM’s hard drive business for $2.05 billion. As per the original agreement, inked in June, Hitachi paid 70 percent of the purchase price to IBM Tuesday — the day of closing. Hitachi agreed to pay the remainder to IBM over the […]

IBM this week pledged to issue an open-source version of its pending Storage Tank technology to lure those inclined toward tinkering with code.Researchers at the Armonk, N.Y.-based concern’s Almaden Research Lab in San Jose are working with an undisclosed open-source group on the software and will release the code in 2003, according to published reports. […]

Some fruits of the Web services lovefest between Microsoft and IBM were unveiled Wednesday as the firms published previously promised Web services specifications to help businesses share information securely. In conjunction with BEA Systems, RSA Security, SAP AG, and VeriSign, Microsoft and IBM said the publication of technical security specs and business policies represent the […]

With the buzz of software tools for developers hot theses days following IBM’s bid to acquire Rational Software, the Eclipse ConsortiumMonday unveiled three new projects and added thirteen new member companies. The first project centers on creating tools for the COBOL Language and is funded in part by a donation from Fujitsu. Dating back some […]

When IBM recently moved to acquire Rational Software , it touched off a frenzy of speculation in the software industry.While the deal had been pegged as all but a foregone conclusion for the last several years, the debate roiled among analysts and other software vendors, many of whom took different tacks in discussing the nuances […]