Clint Boulton

Growing frustration over the length of time it’s taking to pass Web services standards has some industry watchers wondering if Microsoft, IBM and others are moving as fast as they can. By drawing out the process, vendors could steer customers to proprietary offerings before standards are passed by e-business groups such as OASIS, according to […]

NEW YORK — Looking to expand the sphere of its company-wide on-demand strategy even further, IBM’s POWER architecture will be found in anything from consumer electronics to supercomputers, IBM officials said Wednesday. During a news conference here, IBM executives said they will open up the deisgn process for developers to make the chips more pervasive […]

In a sign of how vendors in the storage arena are aligning their products to fit utility computing schemas, Brocade Communications Systems unveiled two new switches with flexible power and pricing structures Wednesday. The storage switch maker designed the SilkWorm 3250 and 3850, code-named “Dazzler,” for small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), but with a distinct twist, […]

IBM is making good on its promise to improve its software development platform, and by extension, the development of Java applications. During a conference call with reporters Monday, IBM executives said the IBM Software Development Platform, which is based on the open Eclipse consortium framework and cemented by the Rational Software technology IBM acquired last […]

A specification for conducting global business transactions over the Internet has achieved the gold standard of validation. The International Organization for Standardization (IS0) Monday said in a public statement it has approved a suite of four Electronic Business Markup Language (ebXML) standards from OASIS, the consortium responsible for shepherding the spec to fruition. The ISO […]

Princeton Softech said it has agreed to offer its database archiving software through VERITAS Software’s partner program, a deal that expands the companies’ distribution channels. James Lee, vice president of product marketing for the Princeton, N.J.-based company, said the companies’ integrated Princeton Softech’s Active Archive software with the VERITAS Data Lifecycle Manager product for customers […]

Taking a page from many systems vendors, Network Appliance is developing a clustered storage infrastructure it calls a “storage grid.” The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based concern said the strategy is expected to come to fruition in three years, one where tiers of storage exist to manage individual devices on a network seamlessly and on the fly. The […]

Cognos CEO Rob Zambonini, who once promised to conduct an earnings call naked if his company’s new reporting product failed to earn $10 million in sales for the quarter, announced his retirement Thursday. Zambonini, a native of Motherwell, Scotland, will leave the business intelligence (BI) software business at the annual stockholders meeting June 23 but […]

PeopleSoft shareholders selected incumbent members for the company’s board of directors in a resounding vote, formally shutting out Oracle’s attempt to place its own members on the board. A preliminary ballot count taken at the annual meeting of stockholders showed that all four board members were re-elected by 95 percent of the votes for the […]

BEA Systems is turning on the charm offensive with developers by offering them a way to lower their software development costs. The application platform company has unveiled a version of its development suite to let developers write Java or service-oriented applications for its application server, for under $1,000. Priced at $995, the WebLogic Workshop Professional […]

Supplanting Dell and EMC, , IBM said a university will bundle 273 of its blade server and Intel server systems for supercomputer to research and develop cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s drugs. The University at Buffalo Center of Excellence (COE) in Bioinformatics, The State University of New York, will use Big Blue’s machines to study the […]

Looking to gain more support for its vaunted next-generation development platform, Microsoft Wednesday introduced a series of programs to lure customers to Visual Studio 2005. The Redmond, Wash. software giant, which formerly called its pending development studio Whidbey, unveiled a Community Technology Preview initiative for Visual Studio 2005, offering pre-release versions of the software to […]