Clint Boulton

IBM Wednesday moved to make its collaboration software more attractive to customers in a increasingly competitive market with the announcement of WebSphere Portal’s Collaboration Center, a destination with such perks as instant messaging, Web conferencing, and people finder tools. Enterprise portals let employees, business partners and customers access information, collaborate and communicate across disparate systems […]

IBM Tuesday launched a new 32-processor mainframe targeted at a select group of new and existing high-end customers in the financial services industry. The highly-anticipated zSeries z990 server, known for months to the computing world as T-Rex, was unveiled at a launch event in San Francisco. As previously reported, the z990 features much more power […]

Collaborative software development firm CollabNet Monday purchased Enlite Networks for an undisclosed sum to bolster its staff and project management software lines. CollabNet picked up the Mountain View, Calif. startup and its entire staff, as well as Enlite Networks India, a separate related company from Chennai, India. CollabNet also announced it has opened a development […]

With the clamor for management software increasing, storage company EMC aimed to meet such customer demand Monday by adding two new features to its ControlCenter line, the centerpiece of its AutoIS strategy to help IT staffs get more control of their storage systems. The Hopkinton, Mass. firm added EMC AutoAdvice, an intelligence engine that grants […]

Computer maker Gateway said it is making progress on its designs to become a broader provider of information technology products and provided financial guidance in an annual investors meeting Thursday. In an aggressive move to return to profitability and regain market share, the Poway, Calif. firm said it would roll out 15 new consumer electronics […]

As the date for the first Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) committee meeting hurtles closer, OASIS will host two parties it previously hadn’t counted on: Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Sun and Oracle have joined the committee and plan to attend the May 16 meeting, in a new twist on the contentious issue over standards for […]

Microsoft Thursday pledged to support all major writable DVD formats in Windows XP, or Longhorn. The Redmond, Wash. software firm said its “increased writable support” means users will have more options to back up data and exchange digital audio, pictures and video files between personal computers and consumer electronics devices. Microsoft made the announcement at […]

Scoffed at and left for dead by industry experts over the last year, Sun Microsystems’ Jini software for connecting multiple devices on a network appears to be gaining momentum. The Santa Clara, Calif. company asserted that organizations are employing the Jini architecture as a Web service in order to link information from different offices in […]

SOAP Version 1.2, whose progress had been hindered last year by intellectual property concerns, has advanced to the next crucial stage in its rite of passage, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Wednesday. SOAP 1.2 is a lightweight protocol meant for exchanging XML-based, structured and typed information on the Web. SOAP , or Simple […]

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HP turned the afterburners on its push to corral more high-end computing market share Tuesday with the unveiling of its “Adaptive Enterprise” strategy. At the heart of this wide-ranging play lies utility computing services and software. The initiative, a broadening and deepening of its adaptive infrastructure strategy on the one-year anniversary of its purchase of […]

Microtune , who competes with Intel and Broadcom in the broadband communications and transportation electronics chips space, Monday revealed that it has sold off assets and laid off more than 1,000 employees in the last few months in order to cut expenses by about $2 million. The Plano, Texas firm, embroiled for the past few […]