Michael Singer

Critics say the time is ripe for HP to split up its businesses now that CEO Carly Fiorina is leaving the company. For months, analysts cited Fiorina’s “New HP” failure to deliver on its promises to compete with Dell’s leading sales position and IBM’s worldwide reach, as a reason to divide the company up into […]

Microsoft is advancing its 64-bit agenda with the addition of some new AMD Opteron computers. AMD said the No. 1 software vendor will use its chips in a batch of enterprise-class HP ProLiant DL145 and DL585 servers that Microsoft recently purchased for its Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — HP launched an aggressive campaign to supplant Dell as the No. 1 enterprise notebook maker. In the first in a series of mobility-focused announcements scheduled for this year, the company said it will throw every notebook, advanced PDA, Tablet PC and smartphone it can at the market to boost its sales […]

BURLINGAME, Calif. — Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the open source movement against critics who say that the so-called “community of communities” should band together or risk ending up like Unix. “One of the big strengths of open source is that you have little coupling between these projects,” Torvalds said during an Open Source Development […]

Sun Microsystems is close to unwrapping its Solaris operating system and other projects as a gift to the open source community. As previously reported, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems vendor is expected to submit the Solaris code base this month under its Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) — a modified Mozilla open source license […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said key partnerships will help make the acquisition of PeopleSoft a complete success. During an event at its corporate headquarters here, the outspoken executive and his top executives introduced the newly merged company and discussed Oracle’s product and global support plans for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards application […]

UPDATED: A chapter in PeopleSoft’s history is closing as Oracle moves forward with its takeover and layoff plans. Workers expect pink slips tucked in FedEx boxes to arrive on their doorsteps this weekend. Some 5,000 Oracle employees (including former PeopleSoft employees) will be let go, according to a company official. Some received notices today, but […]

Government, financial services and manufacturing are the enterprise sectors that will feel the first ripple effect of the new Oracle , according to research published this week. Analysts with IT market consultants Burton Group and IDC are pointing to some very specific industrial sectors that will feel the impact of the merger in the aftermath […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Jobs says he’s keeping one step ahead of Microsoft with the upcoming release of the company’s new OS. The CEO of Apple Computer said his company will distribute the next generation of Mac OS X version 4.0, code-named Tiger, in the first half of 2005. The upgrade from the current version […]

Intel is advancing its position in broadband wireless technology with a new development deal in China, the company said Wednesday. The chipmaking giant is teaming up with ZTE Corporation to develop and promote standards and specifications for 802.16-based networks — commonly referred to as WiMAX — for use around the globe. Intel and ZTE, through […]