Clint Boulton

Hewlett-Packard has sharpened its focus on storage systems that are part of its adaptive, on-demand strategy with the release of an expanded StorageWorks portfolio that includes new business continuity features. The upgraded storage systems, software and related systems in the portfolio are part of HP’s extended ENSA (Enterprise Network Storage Architecture) strategy of giving customers […]

Serial attached storage is slated to have a major presence at the CeBIT America show in New York City this week. Storage players Adaptec, HP and Seagate Technology plan to introduce a new interface that works with both Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA to help businesses cut their IT infrastructure costs. The companies said […]

PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards Monday have amended their merger agreement to speed up the deal in the wake of Oracle’s $5.1 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft. The boards of both companies, who believe the new deal will allay customers’ fears after Oracle’s offer, unanimously approved the amendment as Oracle takes to the road to […]

FEATURE At a partnership announcement with Dell Computer in New York City back in April, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stood alongside his fellow CEO Michael Dell and discussed how the Linux open source operating system was stealing market share from Microsoft’s Windows products. In the future, he asserted, Microsoft would be all but irrelevant by […]

In a sign of how systems vendors are looking for customers in the entertainment business, Sun Microsystems Friday said its mid-range and high-end servers are powering a digital programming repository for 15 HBO and Cinemax networks. Financial details of the deal, announced as JavaOne winds down in San Francisco, were not made public. Two Sun […]

Sun Microsystems continued to hammer out its software evolution strategy at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Wednesday, unveiling, among other advancements, support for its Java RunTime Environment by stalwarts HP and Dell, and the creation of java.net, a new community Web site created to spur Java collaboration. The news was released at the Santa […]

J.D. Edwards filed a $1.7 billion suit against Oracle and its two top executives in state courts in Colorado and California Thursday — the same day that Peoplesoft formally rejected Oracle’s unsolicited $5.1-billion bid. In its lawsuit, J.D. Edwards is claiming that Oracle and the plaintiffs “tortiously interfered” with its proposed merger with PeopleSoft, which […]

Besieged by a hostile $5.1 billion takeover bid by Oracle last week, PeopleSoft late Tuesday cancelled its plan to seek a temporary restraining order to slow Oracle’s advances. Oracle said Pleasanton, Calif.’s PeopleSoft had advised it June 9 that it would file a complaint Alameda Superior Court to halt Oracle’s offer to PeopleSoft shareholders on […]

Sun Microsystems Wednesday unveiled new and improved network identity software to ensure secure delivery of Java-based Web services. One of a slew of Sun’s software announcements this week, the vendor’s move to address network identity comes at a crucial time. The consensus among analysts and CIOs is that it is becoming more imperative for enterprises […]

The official review on XQuery — an XML-based language used to request data from databases — began Tuesday, one week after rivals IBM and Oracle submitted a Java Specification Request (JSR 225) for it to the Java Community Process (JCP). XQuery bears some resemblance to Structured Query Language , the original database query language created […]

NEW YORK — IBM Tuesday moved to fill some holes in key segments that some analysts said needed filling, adding business adapters to its WebSphere business integration platform to lure more customers in electronics, automotive, energy and new healthcare markets. The company also released a new, security-oriented version of its MQ message broker and bundled […]

IBM has unveiled new software from its Tivoli line that helps companies monitor and protect databases from security threats, users with hostile intentions and viruses. IBM Tivoli Risk Manager 4.1 now supports the three leading database products in the market, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server. It features autonomic characteristics, which […]