Clint Boulton

Microsoft has launched its Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) as the first piece of what the software giant promises will be a deep portfolio that helps corporations manage a range of information from data centers to their employees’ mobile devices. The Tuesday launch officially places Microsoft in direct competition with enterprise systems management vendors […]

IBM Tuesday unveiled new database software that extends corporate data to handheld computing devices at a time when employees using mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs must experience little or no drop in their access to business information. Analyst group IDC expects the number of U.S. mobile professionals and mobile data collectors to […]

Adobe Systems moved to reassert its position as a Web-based forms provider Monday with the purchase of assets from Yellow Dragon, a maker of XML messaging and metadata software. The privately-held Yellow Dragon of Vancouver, B.C., makes a commercial software product that deploys the Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) standard . The protocol uses […]

As major systems vendors are lining up to declare utility computing strategies, smaller infrastructure providers are shaping their product portfolios around the current trend for rendering computing resources as pay-as-you-go options. Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware is one such concern who stands to benefit from the explosion in on-demand services, which help corporations cut back on […]

Actuate has refreshed its Multi-Application Option (MAO) software, which allows companies to manage disparate business intelligence applications and includes the ability to monitor the use of a single application. The South San Francisco-based vendor, which moved to acquire Nimble Technology to bolster its reporting software capabilities, said the software option will be available with release […]

Leading makers of computers that perform massively parallel transactions are gearing up for the Supercomputing 2003 conference in Phoenix (Nov. 17-21) with a flurry of news announcements this week. IBM HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI and Cray make up the bulk of vendors who craft machines capable of making massive amounts of computing power available […]

Storage Technology (StorageTek) Thursday teamed with enterprise content management (ECM) player Ixos Software in a strategic alliance to add Ixos’ e-mail archiving software into its own archive and content management suite. The company also plans to resell the German company’s ECM software with its own storage management software. For Louisville, Colo.-based StorageTek, the agreement effectively […]

Network Appliance jumped on the information lifecycle management (ILM) bandwagon Tuesday when it inked a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Spinnaker Networks for $300 million in stock. The deal is an important one for Network Appliance, a Sunnyvale, Calif., storage vendor looking to keep up with giants IBM and EMC in staking territory in the […]

NEW YORK — Veritas Software embarked on the next leg of its utility computing sojourn Tuesday when it announced its CommandCentral Service 3.5 for enterprises who desire data protection, backup and recovery on a pay-for-use basis. Members of the Mountain View, Calif. executive management team were on hand in New York City to announce the […]

Looking to become the leading provider of broadband-driven products for the home, Conexant Systems and GlobespanVirata Monday agreed to merge in a stock deal with about $969.5 million. Under the terms of the deal, GlobespanVirata shareholders will receive 1.198 shares of Conexant common stock for each share of GlobespanVirata stock. Based on the share counts […]

Borland took its quest for application lifecycle management (ALM) to another level with the introduction of the latest version of its Delphi development environment that the company claims is tightly wound with Microsoft’s .NET platform. The Scotts Valley, Calif. company made the announcements Monday at BorCon, its 14th annual users conference, where it also unveiled […]

A Virginia court this past week threw out a motion for a jury trial on MicroStrategy’s allegations that Business Objects tortiously interfered with employment agreements between MicroStrategy and its former employees in a legal duel between two business intelligence software leaders. Business intelligence software is a highly lucrative niche of software applications that all types […]