Clint Boulton

HP Wednesday said it has secured a ten-year IT services contract worth $784 million with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support and maintain its VistA health information systems. The Palo Alto, Calif. systems vendor, which last week announced an expansion to its ten-year, $3 billion contract with Proctor & Gamble, will take responsibility […]

In a move geared to boost interest in the burgeoning Web services development, Cape Clear Software Tuesday released a free service-oriented architecture (SOA) editor to give programmers an improved environment to develop such services. The SOA Editor from the Waltham, Mass., software maker includes automated wizards for development tasks, support for Web Services standards, testing […]

For those tired of the carpal tunnel, tendonitis and various other stress ailments from frequent mouse clicking, help may be on the way. Opera Software on Tuesday said it is putting the finishing touches on a voice-activated browser that uses IBM’s Embedded ViaVoice speech technology to save heavy computer users from click-related repetitive stress injuries. […]

The CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta this week will play host to a number of wireless technologies, but perhaps none are so popular at this moment than mobile Web services, which Sun Microsystems and the Liberty Alliance will demonstrate. Sun said that it is working with Research In Motion (RIM) to bring mobile Java […]

HP Monday refreshed its storage area networks (SAN) portfolio for small and medium-size businesses (SMB) in an effort to lure customers from a pool of business that analysts say will be very lucrative for the next few years. The upgrade is part of a company-wide $750 million Smart Office strategy to lure SMBs to its […]

Recognizing the importance of serving the growing legion of small- and medium-sized business customers, Dell on Monday unveiled a network attached storage (NAS) server to help SMBs manage increasing volumes of data. Dell rivals IBM, HP, Hitachi Data Systems and Network Appliance all make NAS or storage area network (SAN) servers and devices for SMBs, […]

HP has been filling gaps in its OpenView management software platform through acquisitions. Just last week, the company moved to buy identity management software maker TruLogica. But it’s been shopping for months, striking five other deals deals since July: the SelectAccess security assets from Baltimore Technologies; Talking Blocks for Web services management; Persist Technologies for […]

NEW YORK — Sun Microsystems is 60 days away from releasing a version of its Java Enterprise System infrastructure software for Linux, which it expects to compete with IBM’s offerings. Steve Borcich, executive director of Sun’s Java systems and security marketing, said the enterprise software system is made up of 13 or so products that […]

Eying more market share in the telecommunications industry, IBM unveiled a blade server system Thursday, one designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions. The eServer BladeCenter T is the Armonk, N.Y. company’s latest member of the company’s blade server family. Blade servers are thin machines that fit into a chassis. More blades may be added as […]

Developers: Start your Web Services interoperability testing. The Web Services Interoperability Organization has released its (WS-I) Basic Profile for interoperability among different Web services . The Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer testing tools are now available in C# and Java , according to a WS-I spokesperson. WS-I said the tools […]

In the latest indication of just how serious IBM is about rallying support for its POWER brand, the company has scheduled an event dedicated to the microprocessor architecture in New York City for the end of the month. The IBM invitation for the March 31 event calls it “a unique look at the microprocessor that […]

Documentum has acquired content management assets from copy machine titan Xerox. Documentum, the enterprise content management (ECM) division of storage systems maker EMC, acquired the askOnce content integration technology from a Grenoble, France-based Xerox division for an undisclosed sum. Pleasanton, Calif.’s Documentum said the purchase has enabled it to construct a product called Virtual Repository, […]