Andy Patrizio

UPDATED: Microsoft’s been busy. The software giant took the wraps off Exchange “12,” announced new management software and made a strategic acquisition in the management space, all within a few days. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is now the official product name of what had been known in development as Exchange 12, the email and collaboration […]

Analysis: Sun Microsystems is full of great-sounding ideas and technology. Open source hardware and software, multi-core servers and blistering attacks on the competition are but a few the company’s trotted out during the past year. So far, it hasn’t worked. Revenue is up, but Sun’s losses are mounting. What’s the new CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, to […]

UPDATED: Late last Friday, Sun Microsystems CEO and co-founder Scott McNealy called up the board of directors and announced his plans to step down from the top spot of the company co-founded 23 years ago, choosing as his successor another Sun veteran, company president and COO Jonathan Schwartz. McNealy stays on at Sun as chairman. […]

Microsoft has issued a significant refresh to Windows Defender Beta 2 (build 1347), bringing new features and functionality to the anti-spyware software as it gets closer to official release. The software runs on Windows XP and is also expected to be incorporated into Microsoft’s future Vista operating system slated to debut for enterprise customers by […]

It looks like Microsoft is getting users of its operating systems coming and going. Microsoft’s next generation Vista OS may prove too much for older computers, but the company has announced it will no longer support the Windows 9x code base as of later this summer. Luddites who want to stick with Windows 98/SE/ME will […]

Sun Microsystems continues to expand its open source offerings with the announcement that significant parts of its Sun Java Studio Enterprise development tools would be made freely available through the NetBeans.org Web site. This new project will be released as the NetBeans Enterprise Pack and will be based on Java Studio Enterprise, Sun’s Java IDE, […]

Start-up firm ScanR today announced a new service to process photos taken by camera phones and convert the image into a searchable document for future reference. Photos taken with a camera phone are processed by an automated system, cleaned up to remove background noise, blurriness and other flaws, converted to the Portable Document Format (PDF) […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel and VMware have announced plans to spread the gospel of virtualization to IT managers facing an ever-growing farm of x86 servers that only use a fraction of their full power. The deal, announced here at the Intel Developer Forum, covers both marketing and technological efforts as they relate to VMware software […]