Clint Boulton

With the proliferation of file-sharing networks, protecting digital content has never been more challenging for copyright holders and regulators. To stem the problem, the Federal Communications Commission recently drafted new “Broadcast Flag” rules to protect content from being intercepted between recording depots such as computers or TiVo to personal televisions. Against this backdrop, Hewlett-Packard on […]

Oracle President Chuck Phillips is hoping a sales pitch to a gathering of J.D. Edwards customers in the software maker’s will curry favor for its maligned $9.4 billion offer for rival PeopleSoft. While Phillips pumped up his own company at the Quest West meeting in San Diego, Calif., Monday with such flowery descriptions as “innovative […]

In a sign that once hypothetical Web services are being used in practical situations, eBay and Microsoft have invited developers to create ways for buyers and sellers to automate and manage business on the world’s most popular online auction site. The companies are letting developers from eBay’s Developers Program use the auction platform and Microsoft’s […]

Analysis: When DoJ Assistant Attorney General R. Hewitt Pate announced his intentions to block Oracle’s $9.4 billion bid for applications rival PeopleSoft, it marked the next turn on what could be a long path to redefining the enterprise software market. Now that Oracle has vowed to take the Department of Justice head on, the handicapping […]

Oracle has vowed to “vigorously challenge” the Department of Justice’s decision to block the software maker’s attempt to purchase PeopleSoft for $9.4 billion. Because such litigation will extend beyond PeopleSoft’s annual shareholders’ meeting on March 25, Oracle said it will withdraw its recommended slate of directors and will not solicit proxies at the meeting. It […]

UPDATE:The Department of Justice has dealt a blow to Oracle’s $9.4 billion hostile bid to purchase rival software maker PeopleSoft , saying Thursday that it would hurt competition, stymie innovation and jack up prices in the industry. Assistant Attorney General R. Hewitt Pate, who heads the DoJ’s Antitrust Division, on Thursday said the DoJ would […]

With Linux-based machines proving to be the most successful growing server segment, IBM saw its total server sales balloon 10 percent from 2002 to 2003, while Sun Microsystems dropped 15 percent for the same period, according to the latest figures from research company Gartner . Big Blue’s revenues grew nearly $1 billion from $13.4 billion […]

A high-ranking IBM official has offered to work with Sun Microsystems on a project to open-source Java , a move that could unify the development community over the programming language. Reacting to a comment made by Sun’s Chief Technology Evangelist Simon Phipps at a developer conference, Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies of IBM […]

BMC Software is juicing up its management software for mainframe computers to make sure the big machines remain up and running. BMC competes fiercely with IBM’s Tivoli business and Computer Associates in what analysts claim is a multi-billion-dollar management software market. All three companies work to find placement for their products in the data centers […]

If it appears that IBM is hungry to push the boundaries of its eServer p690 server, that’s because Big Blue is keen to let customers of the POWER4+ architecture know they won’t be left behind when the vaunted POWER5 appears this year. Oh, and they want to take business from HP , too. The trend […]

UPDATE: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) Wednesday unveiled the first 300 gigabyte hard disk drive for storing enterprise-level data, a move that increases the stakes for competitors in the server hardware sector. The Ultrastar 10K300 is also the first completely unified product the San Jose, Calif., company put out since it merged with IBM’s […]

Storage subsystem maker Dot Hill Systems acquired Chaparral Network Storage Tuesday for roughly $72.4 million in an attempt to broaden its sphere of influence in the mid-range market. Under terms of the agreement, Dot Hill will pay $62 million in cash and assume $10.4 million in the private company’s debt. Dot Hill takes specifications from […]