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In an example of how high-tech vendors are shoring up deals in the financial services industry, IBM will announce a major technology pact with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) next Thursday, internetnews.com has learned. Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software, and Roger Burkhardt, CTO of the New York Stock […]

IBM put a fresh coat of paint on an old door, unveiling a version of the company’s 35-year-old Customer Information Control System (CICS) transaction server, which is primed for Web services. An IBM creation, CICS has traditionally made it possible for enterprises to process billions of transactions per day, totaling in the trillions of dollars. […]

Sybase announced it has tailored its Linux-based database to run on rival IBM’s eServer OpenPower systems, providing customers more choice in the increasingly popular market for Linux systems. The deal is a snub to Sun Microsystems , which has enjoyed a long partnership cultivating software architectures with Sybase, partly to compete with Big Blue in […]

Heeding the call from customers, Trigence Corp. has created software that virtualizes applications running on the Solaris operating system created by Sun Microsystems. Trigence’s current software portfolio helps clients virtually shuttle several Linux and Unix applications across their servers and data centers, adding flexibility at a time when customers want to be able to move […]

HP used an event in Spain to introduce software that configures computing services and applications based on changes in business demand. Officials from the Palo Alto, Calif., company unveiled the new OpenView Automation Manager as the first software from its Novadigm and Consera Software acquisitions this year. Launched at the Software Universe show in Madrid, […]

One of the most significant changes in the software industry has been the arrival of Web services , a truly distributed computing model in which applications “talk” to one another. In short, it’s the next evolution of the Web. And for many developers, the future has arrived. In this latest installment of In Focus, in […]

Seeking a way to provide customers with more hands-on opportunities to test its management software, IBM opened the doors to a new on-demand technology center Monday. The Tivoli Orchestration and Provisioning Technology Center, in IBM’s Washington System building in Gaithersburg, Md., helps clients configure and provision applications based on pre-set business rules in real-time. Using […]

IBM is wresting market share from rivals in the server sector with 31.7 percent of factory revenues worldwide on sales of $3.6 billion in the third quarter. According to IDC, HP came in second during the same time with a 26.8 percent market share on $3.1 billion in sales. Sun and Dell were next with […]

Open source software gurus criticized a European Union (EU) council for attempting to add a software patent directive they say will stifle innovation and competition. Alarmed that software creation will be patented and be thus rendered cost-prohibitive, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, MySQL author Michael Widenius and PHP programmer Rasmus Lerdorf said in a letter the […]

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IBM debuted its TotalStorage 3580 tape drive Tuesday with a machine that pipes data up to 80 megabytes per second. The company called it nearly 20 percent faster than the fastest machine from rival Certance. For a practical example of what 80MBps can provide, the linear tape-open (LTO) drive can back up more than five […]

Development for Microsoft’s next-generation Windows Server continues. The company issued a technical preview of its Avalon user interface for developers. Comprised of a display engine and managed code, Avalon unifies documents, graphics and applications on the Windows platform, blending them for a more seamless user experience. The layer’s engine provides one runtime engine application, graphics, […]