Clint Boulton

After failing to secure a buyer for its assets, StorageNetworks Thursday said its board of directors has signed off on a liquidation plan and laid off all but a handful of the remaining workers at the company. The Waltham, Mass.-based storage management service provider, which said it would seek shareholder approval for the actions in […]

Open-source database maker MySQL AB Wednesday said it has inked Linux-oriented deals with Veritas, SGI and others to wrap its software with major products from those companies. The news comes days before the kick-off of LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 in San Francisco, where Mountain View, Calif.’s Veritas and SGI plan to unveil their technology […]

Although it has supported Microsoft’s development efforts for years, Intel Wednesday announced that it has officially joined software development consortium Eclipse as a supporting member, giving the Java community another powerful ally in its fight against the .NET development environment. The move is a sign that the battle between the Java language faithful, including companies […]

As previously reported, EMC unleashed its grandest storage system to date, improved upon its replication software and added new data migration support. The Hopkinton, Mass. storage company is improving on the Symmetrix DMX line it announced less than six months ago, one that EMC President and CEO Joseph Tucci said on a conference call Wednesday […]

Working to affirm its claim as a leading proponent and user of Linux technology, IBM decided to get next week’s LinuxWorld announcements going early Wednesday, unveiling new hardware and software that showcase the open-source operating system. LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 begins next week on August 4 in San Francisco, where major vendors including Big […]

Business intelligence (BI) software maker Actuate has purchased privately-held business integration software provider Nimble Technology in the latest of a series of software acquisitions over the last several weeks. San Francisco’s Actuate acquired the Seattle-based Nimble for an undisclosed amount to sew Nimble’s XML-based technology into its server software to make it easier for customers […]

In its salad days, Rainfinity attempted to navigate through a younger, evolving computing market with its Reliable Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) technology, which was commercialized in the security space. RAIN is a patented clustering technology that was conceived and developed by a team of Caltech scientists who are among the company’s founders. Though it […]

A group of companies has teamed to publish a Web services transaction framework proposal without two of the major purveyors of standards in the continuation of a polarization trend in the software industry. Without Microsoft or IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Arjuna Technologies, Fujitsu Software and IONA Technologies said they have published a draft of the […]

IBM Monday said it has refreshed its software for using applications from different vendors that enable coworkers to collaborate on projects through one Web-based portal. The market for portal software is lucrative, often estimated by research companies such as Gartner to be worth between $3 to $5 billion over the next few years. Analysts have […]

Several major IT vendors are planning to unveil a significant open-standards initiative in an effort to enforce safer computing for customers in a time when on-the-fly systems management is highly desirable. Led by Tripwire, the security standard will be unveiled on a conference call August 5. Hewlett-Packard , IBM , InstallShield, RSA Security , and […]

IBM said it has scored a multi-million-dollar contract to power a digital entertainment company with its workstations, blade servers storage and of course, on-demand technology. Big Blue teamed up with the cutting-edge Threshold Digital Research Labs to create a “digital animation and effects powerhouse” in a four-year deal. Specific financial details were not made public. […]

Despite PeopleSoft’s closure of its purchase of J.D. Edwards, Oracle remained undeterred by reaffirming its bid to buy the rival business software company and vowing to pay as much as an extra $1.2 billion for the combined firm. According to a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Oracle waived its stipulation that […]