Clint Boulton

Microsoft continued its push to help acclimate academic computer science programs to its .NET Framework Thursday with a user interface that helps teachers and students use their Java-based curriculum with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The Microsoft Supplemental User Interface (UI) Library for Visual J# .NET functions somewhat like the 2 JFC Swing specification, a family […]

EMC’s bid to acquire Legato Software Tuesday for $1.3 billion caught the attention of analysts that follow the sector and quelled debate over whether or not the deal, rumored as far back as a year, would happen. Now that it has, a different debate has arisen. While most analysts lauded the deal, EMC rivals are […]

Supercomputer purveyors Sun Microsystems , IBM and Cray Wednesday announced that they have won a total of $146 million in awards from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for high-performance computing system concepts. High-performance computing is the science of making large computers perform daunting numbers of calculations per-second, numbering in the trillions or even […]

IBM Wednesday brought together three of its flagship technologies together for the first time to help its customers add a jolt to their IT systems without costing them extra cash. The Armonk, N.Y. vendor has crafted its WebSphere Application Server software to support its eServer pSeries and iSeries machines running both Linux and IBM’s Power4 […]

With concerns about identity management apparently popping up at every turn in the IT industry, IBM Wednesday unveiled a purpose-based data authorization language to help businesses automate privacy policies across applications and systems. Called Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language, EPAL is intended to cover ground that another major privacy protocol, Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), fails […]

On a kick to propel its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy into high gear, storage systems giant EMC purchased Legato Systems Tuesday for $1.3 billion in stock. The Hopkinton, Mass. vendor bought the Mountain View, Calif. storage software maker to ratchet up its ILM portfolio, which helps enterprises manage storage from the time it is […]

Buckling a bit under delays in customer purchasing, management software maker BMC Software Monday said it would restructure after warning in preliminary financial results for the first quarter that revenues will be as much as $15 million less than previously expected. The Houston vendor, which competes with Computer Associates and Veritas , said it anticipates […]

Two small companies aimed to spread the gospel of open-source technologies Monday as Pogo Linux said it agreed to build an appliance powered by MySQL AB’s open-source database. Pogo Linux, a Redmond, Wash.-based maker of hardware for the open-source operating system Linux, will make the DataWare 2600 Server, which will be loaded with MySQL’s popular […]

With many areas in the IT sector looking bleak in terms of the paucity of money being spent on them, one area analysts continue to claim is taking a beating from the depressed spending is the enterprise application integration (EAI) market. Research firm The Yankee Group recently concluded a study in which it determined that […]

PeopleSoft surprised the industry Wednesday when it said preliminary results for the second quarter beat the average Wall Street estimates of earnings-per-share by one to two pennies — all in the face of a hostile takeover bid from rival Oracle . The company said it expects new software license revenue for the quarter to be […]

Eyeing more customers in the corporate space, EMC Wednesday said it has purchased the storage management software line of BMC Software . The acquisition of BMC Software’s PATROL Storage Manager software is the key piece in the companies’ global sales, marketing and technology partnership. EMC said it would ultimately eradicate the product and move BMC […]

Commercial vendors sometimes take pot-shots at open-source software projects because they think the code is weaker, or hasn’t been validated by professional testers. But a new study by an inspection firm has found that the latest version of Apache Web server is comparable in quality to its commercial brethren. Mountain View, Calif.’s Reasoning, which charts […]