Clint Boulton

Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with the creation of the World Wide Web, will be anointed a knight by Queen Elizabeth. Berners-Lee, 48, is being knighted in recognition of his “services to the global development of the Internet” for helping to invent the Web. Buckingham Palace announced the news yesterday as part of its 2004 […]

When EMC announced its intent to purchase VMware two weeks ago, many technology analysts greeted the news with praise while their Wall Street counterparts balked, citing a lack of synergy between server virtualization and EMC’s core competency, storage. Count Susquehanna Financial Group among the doubters of EMC’s $635 million bid, which it says is expensive […]

Preparing for a green light from regulatory bodies regarding its $7.5 billion takeover bid for applications rival PeopleSoft , Oracle has secured a $1.5 billion credit line to pad its finances. A recent Oracle filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicate that Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and others […]

Circuits and microchip maker Vitesse Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Cicada Semiconductor for approximately $66 million in cash, a move that strengthens Vitesse’s position in the local area network switching market. Vitesse, which makes switches that help copper and fiber optic lines interoperate, would essentially double its revenues with the deal, while positioning for what […]

PeopleSoft’s purchase of J.D. Edwards in the face of a hostile takeover attempt by rival software maker Oracle ranked as one the of the most promising acquisitions of the year, according to a mergers and acquisitions analysis service. In addition to listing five acquisitions it believed would have the most impact on the tech sector, […]

USB flash drives, those tiny storage devices no bigger than a pack of gum, are steadily gaining momentum as a fast, reliable and convenient tool for taking files such as digital audio and video clips from one computing device to another. But experts say USB flash drives face an uphill battle for widespread acceptance, as […]

December marks the one-year anniversary of IBM’s announcement to acquire software tools developer Rational Software for $2.1 billion. The deal is seen helping IBM add more depth to its work developing service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to deliver Web services. SOAs define how computing entities interact to enable one entity to perform a unit of work on […]

IBM is updating its WebSphere line with new support for JDK 1.4, part of the next generation of Java software that many developers are writing to power Web services applications. Bob Sutor, director of WebSphere Infrastructure Software, said at a recent media event that WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and Application Server Express 5.1 now support […]

In a partnership between two competitors seemingly moving toward the utility computing front, Veritas Software Tuesday unveiled software that bundles its application performance management (APM) software with EMC storage arrays to improve database performance on EMC platforms. Veritas Storage Extension links the Mountain View, Calif., company’s Indepth APM software with EMC arrays to help IT […]

Oracle Friday extended its deadline for acquiring PeopleSoft , even though currently only 3 percent of the company’s shares have been tendered by those who support the deal. That 3 percent, or roughly 12.4 million shares, is less than half of the 24.8 million shares tendered by PeopleSoft shareholders who supported the deal in October, […]

Analysis: In the wake of its bid to acquire virtualization software maker VMWare, EMC is insisting that the move is not an attempt to insert itself into the race for utility computing market share against rivals such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard . Some analysts find this hard to believe, while praising EMC’s strategy. After all, […]

Microsoft is taking a piece from its percolating management software platform to its second beta test, priming Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004 to nip network problems before they wreak havoc on computing systems. Slated for release next summer, MOM 2004 provides event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend analysis of computer networks. Microsoft […]