Brian Morrissey

IBM announced Thursday it sold a group of powerful supercomputers, as Big Blue boasted it still dominates the high-performance computer field. IBM said the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Audi, and a German research center had chosen to use supercomputers based on IBM’s eServer p690, which it unveiled in October 2001. The DoD supercomputer will […]

At long last, the end may be in sight in the four-year legal battle between Microsoft Corp. and the government. A federal court judge heard closing arguments today in the antitrust fight between Microsoft and the nine holdout states, after she opened the window to a possible compromise by telling the two sides to modify […]

In late 1999, when Loudcloud was about to launch, co-founder Marc Andreessen wouldn’t tell anyone what the company would do. After assuring the press it wouldn’t be a consulting company, or a Web hosting company, or an ISP, he unveiled Loudcloud as a managed services business in October 1999. But with yesterday’s announcement of a […]

A federal appeals court Tuesday rebuffed a Verizon challenge to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that requires incumbent local phone companies to allow rivals space to store networking equipment. The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a Verizon petition to throw out FCC rules requiring incumbent local exchange carriers […]

Facing a rapidly consolidating market for IT services, Loudcloud sold its managed services business to EDS and will now concentrate on selling its Opsware enterprise software. The company also announced it would change its name to Opsware. EDS will pay $63.5 million for Loudcloud’s Web-hosting business, and signed a $52 million three-year licensing agreement to […]

Nearly a year after Comdisco filed for bankruptcy protection, the formerly high-flying computer-services company said it reached an agreement with its committees of creditors and shareholders on a three-year plan to sell its remaining assets.. “This will allow us, in an orderly fashion, to determine how to sell them off,” said Comdisco spokesperson Mary Moster. […]

Hoping to gain a new lease on life, Peregrine Systems announced it received a $50 million loan and reached an agreement to sell its supply-chain management business. The embattled San Diego management software maker said it signed a loan and security agreement with Foothill Capital Group, an administrative arm of Ableco Finance. Under the terms […]

PHILADELPHIA — The dream of some in the 802.11 community is to replace the hodge-podge scheme of disconnected wireless LANs with a floating system of self-forming, self-healing networks. And they think they can make that dream a reality in a few years. “There’s an interesting thing about 802.11 as it currently exists,” David Spector, founder […]

IBM Corp. Thursday announced a new service designed to cut down on the vast amounts of paperwork created in the nation’s health-care system. Big Blue snagged its first client in health insurer Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The IBM system will use software from Lexington-Mass.-based deNovis that electronically reads statements and rules, automatically making […]

PHILADELPHIA — At the 802.11 Planet Conference here, the message to the public hotspot market is: Forget John Q. Public, unless he’s carrying a briefcase. Analysts said the market for public hotspots, despite all the hype, doesn’t appear all that large, except for niche providers for business travelers. According to Cahners InStat analyst Gemma Paolo, […]

PHILADELPHIA — The numbers are undeniably big: 1,2000 schools, 87,000 faculty and administration, and over 1 million students. But Kevin Mazzatta, a wireless client solutions executive at IBM , counters with his own numbers: hundreds of offices dotting the globe, 325,000 employees, and tens of thousands of mobile workers like himself. If there ever was […]

PHILADELPHIA — With 802.11a products due to hit the market soon and an 802.11g standard in the offing, a battle between the two standards for the mantle of successor to 802.11b would seem only natural. In the end, though, the 802.11 world might just be big enough for all three. That was the message this […]