Andy Patrizio

On Tuesday, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will be the first major tech bellwether to release earnings for the third quarter, and all signs are pointing to the chip giant exceeding original projections yet again. Even better, some of the indications noted by analysts signal strong sales across the board, meaning it won’t be just Intel’s boat […]

Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz had a tough act to follow after last night — with their boss Larry Ellison issuing a challenge to IBM and Sun’s Scott McNealy delivering a nostalgic look at the past and future of the company he co-founded. But they tried, talking about about what they described as […]

Despite rumors and innuendo, customers of Sun Microsystems should be excited about the future under Oracle management, not concerned about it. That was the message from Sun’s co-founder and chairman, Scott McNealy, delivered during the opening of the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Sunday night. If that reassurance isn’t enough for customers, Oracle’s brash […]

Dell and Salesforce have formed an unlikely alliance to promote Salesforce’s core CRM software to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are often reliant on a mish-mash of products not available on-demand the way Salesforce CRM operates. The two firms, already mutual customers of each other, will now team on the SMB market, with Salesforce […]

IBM on Friday announced a new software solution that brings mainframe-level scalability to its rack-mount DB2 database servers. The news comes on the eve of Oracle Openworld and is aimed at returning a little fire at Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) for its claims against IBM database servers. IBM DB2 pureScale is a special version of DB2 […]

Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos sent a letter to the European Commission’s top antitrust authority, urging her and her regulatory body to approve Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems, which owns his former company. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) purchased MySQL in 2008 for $1 billion, and Mickos departed a few months after that. Now Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) […]

nVidia has enjoyed a nice business in selling integrated chipsets for both AMD and Intel motherboards, but the company is about to lose a tidy chunk of income due to shifts in the landscapes at both CPU companies. Its chipset business, which is nVidia’s media and communications processor (MCP) line, accounted for $708 million in […]

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an antitrust inquiry into IBM’s mainframe business practices, following on allegations that Big Blue has systemically squeezed out any potential competitors to its relatively small but lucrative mainframe business. While not a big dollar maker for IBM when compared to its overall services business, mainframes nonetheless are very profitable, […]

Network-attached storage (NAS) is usually viewed as a feature for large-scale enterprises, but Iomega, a subsidiary of storage giant EMC, is continuing its affordable storage initiative with a new NAS appliance for home and SMB users. Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 borrows many technologies from EMC (NYSE: EMC) enterprise-class storage devices but puts it in a form […]

Rackspace Hosting on Wednesday announced an online community called No More Servers : The End of In-House Servers that offers full hosting of all of an enterprise’s needs, including the hardware. It would seem the logical follow-up to the software as a service and platform as a service movements. Salesforce.com’s slogan for many years was […]

This was a switch. Usually when a vendor offers customer case studies, it’s the customer with the big story to tell. So I was quite willing to hear IT managers discuss how Intel’s Nehalem had saved them money. Remember when Intel launched Nehalem and Pat Gelsinger called it a “cash machine?” Well, as it turned […]

AT&T reversed course on Tuesday and said that it would no longer prevent iPhone customers from using Voice over IP protocol (VoIP) services that bypass its own voice network. Prior to this, the only way to use Skype’s VoIP telephony service was to use a Wi-Fi network, which could be spotty or unreliable. In announcing […]