Clint Boulton

On the heels of several software announcements centered on data management, IBM is set to release in June DB2 Express, a smaller version of its flagship database targeted to the small- and medium-sized business market, internetnews.com has learned. Sources close to the company said the product will feature automation and silent install at a price […]

Microsoft scored a coup over rival RealNetworks Thursday when e-commerce giant Amazon.com picked its Windows Media Services 9 Series software to play its song samples for music shoppers. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. Amazon selected Windows in large part because of its Fast Streaming technology, a feature included in Windows Server 2003 […]

New license software revenue for relational database management systems (RDBMS) decreased 6.9 percent in 2002, totaling $6.6 billion in 2002 from revenues of $7.1 billion a year earlier, according to Gartner, who just completed a worldwide study. So much for all of the hype about data management software. Though databases are traditionally a strong revenue […]

Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTSI) Wednesday released two new Unix machines for the entry-level market that feature the high-end capabilities of mainframes, which analysts say make them the most powerful machines for the low-end market. FTSI’s Primepower 250 and 450 models are high-performing servers with smaller footprints than comparable machines from rivals IBM, HP and Sun […]

In the interest of helping to ensure software continuity for customers, IBM Wednesday married Linux clusters and blade servers to offer a pre-packaged “supercluster.” The idea is to pack as much power as possible in as small a space to improve system manageability, a challenge for blade servers. To do this, Armonk, New York’s IBM […]

Open standards consortium OASIS has ratified the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification (UDDI) version 2.0, a move analysts called a positive step in the Web services movement. UDDI is a vital cog in enabling machine-to-machine communications via Web services protocols. It serves as an XML-based phone directory to allow enterprises to find other firms […]

Big Blue Tuesday drew the curtain on its first software products from its purchase of Rational Software — two new tools geared to help development teams write business applications and systems together. Both tools are geared for software automation, an increasingly important ingredient to helping enterprises meet their software needs on-demand, a business model IBM […]

Veritas Software Monday upgraded an application that automates the recovery of different server systems in its ongoing effort to minimize system downtime and make IT administration easier. The Mountain View, Calif. firm’s revised Bare Metal Restore 4.6 features “dissimilar system restore,” which lets a user recover software from Windows or Unix systems to different hardware […]

HP Monday launched the next version of its HP-UX operating system and took a another step in what experts say is a challenging, long-term attempt to migrate its software from PA-RISC to Itanium architecture, which is expected to triple high-end system performance over the next three years. In issuing its first update to its OS […]

Busy on the software integration front, IBM revealed that its has increased its coverage of specific industries to 11 and the number of templates overall to 45. The WebSphere Business Integration portfolio now covers automotive, banking, chemical and petroleum, electronics, energy and utilities, financial markets, health care, insurance, life sciences & pharmaceutical, retail distribution and […]

IBM has come to terms on pricing for its DB2 Information Integrator software and plans to formally launch the product at its IBM Software Symposium next Tuesday. DB2 Information Integrator software is tailored to help customers integrate information in multiple locations as if it were stored in one location. It is platform-agnostic, allowing business to […]

IBM Wednesday moved to shore up its on-demand e-business strategy Wednesday by buying privately-held software maker Think Dynamics for an undisclosed sum. Toronto’s Think Dynamics makes software that addresses computing demand peaks and system failures by allocating resources at the right time before a system is stalled. Also known as orchestrated or dynamic provisioning, this […]