Clint Boulton

In an effort to extend its tendrils of influence over its hostile acquisition target PeopleSoft , Oracle late last week said that it is looking to nominate five individuals to the PeopleSoft board of directors. Oracle, waging a battle to buy applications rival PeopleSoft for some $7.5 billion, also said it intends to introduce a […]

Computer Associates International (CA) refreshed its popular BrightStor storage backup software, Monday reinforcing its ties with the Microsoft Windows platform in hopes of garnering more market share from its chief rival VERITAS . While BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11 contains a number of new features, the key achievement, according to David Liff, vice president of storage […]

Storage hardware maker BlueArc Monday unveiled a network-attached storage (NAS) server to help it better compete with the likes of perennial NAS leaders EMC and Network Appliance A NAS device is strictly geared to serve files. EMC and NetApp are regularly the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the NAS segment, according to research […]

NEW YORK — Sun Microsystems this week vowed more support for Java development tools running on Linux and discussed the potential for Linux at the desktop level. Sun development tools group marketing manager Jeff Anders said at the LinuxWorld trade show that the Santa Clara, Calif. outfit sees opportunities for Linux and Java combinations on […]

EMC Thursday reported a 25 percent year-over-year revenue growth for the final quarter of 2003 in a strong indicator of the company’s success in selling the concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) to its customers. Fourth quarter revenue was $1.86 billion, a 25 percent rise from total revenue of $1.49 billion in the same, year-ago […]

Two leading Infiniband switch makers Tuesday announced their presence at the LinuxWorld show with new partnerships geared to ramp up buzz for the slow-growing yet fast-moving technology. InfiniBand is an extremely fast, low latency interconnect technology used to pipe data between processors and devices, such as computer servers. It was designed to replace the PCI […]

NEW YORK — Two of IBM’s top executives made a number of announcements at a LinuxWorld press briefing Wednesday and weathered challenges about why IBM is not offering a Linux indemnification program for its customers to protect them from any legal action in the ongoing battle over Linux. IBM General Manager of Linux Jim Stallings […]

NEW YORK — In a marriage of popular open-source software providers, MySQL will bundle its database server with the application server of JBoss Group to make the deployment of applications more fluid. Financial arrangements of the deal were not revealed, but the companies will jointly market JBoss Group professional services and MySQL AB products and […]

Few in the tech industry would disagree that the wealth of chip architecture support IBM offers its customers, whether for Intel’s Itanium or AMD’s Opteron, is the broadest in the business. Now, it appears the systems vendor is gearing up to make a stronger push for its own POWER architecture. The Armonk, N.Y. company’s systems […]

A major grid computing consortium and a cadre of leading technology companies outlined new specifications that will marry the concepts of grid computing and Web services to improve business processes on the Web. But the specs appear to overlap with the work Microsoft, BEA, and others presented earlier this month in their WS-Eventing schema. The […]

IBM is looking to lure Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 users to Linux with new programs for business partners and customers at LinuxWorld this week. Big Blue has chosen the conference in New York City as the pulpit from which to preach about its Linux migration programs because Microsoft is slated to discontinue pay-per-incident and […]

Like many software companies, VERITAS Software has queued up a news announcement surrounding the Linux operating system in time for the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City this week. VERITAS, a storage software outfit evolving into a utility computing company, said it has expanded storage, clustering and server provisioning support for SUSE LINUX and VMware […]