Clint Boulton

IBM has unmasked new management software from its Tivoli line equipped with new self-managing features to help find and fix bugs in systems before they become network-wide problems. Big Blue is holding court about the products in New Orleans this week during the IBM DeveloperWorks Live! 2003 event. With that backdrop, its autonomic computing initiative […]

Microsoft Tuesday continued to tip its hand about features it will include in forthcoming products at the National Association of Broadcasters convention (NAB2003). To make way for what it has long believed will be a lucrative Internet Protocol-based interactive television market, the Redmond, Wash. software concern said the pending release of its touted embedded operating […]

When Enron was found to have shredded incriminating documents, it touched off an avalanche of concern for increased records retention and with it, created new opportunities for storage-oriented firms to make new products to address this issue. EMC Tuesday became the first to tap an emerging market for records retention products when it released a […]

Open source developer group Eclipse this week said it has enhanced its Java-based software tools integration platform. The group, spearheaded by IBM, said R2.1 features improved usability and performance. It also includes workbench navigation enhancements, user-configurable key bindings and new Ant support. The Java development tools also boast editor and debugger improvements and re-factorings. In […]

Storage networking specialist CNT Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire fibre channel switchmaker Inrange Technologies for $190 million in cash. Terms of the deal call for SPX Corp., which owns 91 percent of Lumberton, N.J.’s Inrange, to sell its stake to CNT at $2.31 per Inrange share. The remainder of the shares will be […]

Sun Microsystems Monday unfurled another banner in its Sun One strategy for computer services on demand with the introduction of a platform that it claims will make workflow communications in the corporate sector more efficient, and ultimately, its users more productive. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which recently reopened its corporate offices in Menlo Park, […]

IBM is offering the public a free template for creating software that seeks out glitches in networks and squelches them before they cause performance failure. Under the aegis of its autonomic computing strategy, the Armonk, N.Y. concern will also make available the first in a series of technologies based on the blueprint. The move demonstrates […]

Accelerating their efforts to forge standards together, Microsoft and IBM this week submitted a test suite for viewing and creating information in corporate databases tagged with the XML language to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The language, called XML Query (XQuery), uses queries to extract data from real and virtual Web documents, paving the […]

One of the several legal spats between Research In Motion and upstart rival Good Technology is heading to trial. The suit, one of four in total, deals with RIM’s claim that Good took customer information from RIM. In a hearing Wednesday, Canada’s RIM applied for a preliminary injunction in the California Superior Court seeking to […]

HP sought to bolster its server market share Thursday with the announcement of new pricing for its midrange servers that would be 20 percent lower than the current offerings in its Unix-based machines family. Dimitris Dovas, midrange server line manager at HP, said the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm is also adding new services and increased […]

Dell Wednesday expressed its faith in open-source computing like never before and expanded its pacts with vendors Oracle and EMC . Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison joined Dell CEO Michael Dell onstage at the Pierre Hotel to discuss how the two companies had inked a global sales agreement to implant Oracle databases and application […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Tuesday said it has completed the creation of a working group to address perhaps the greatest barrier in wholesale Web services adoption — security. The WS-I put the finishing touches on the Basic Security Profile Working Group (BSPWG), which will develop an interoperability profile that addresses transport security, SOAP […]