Clint Boulton

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has made progress in its endeavor to combine two technologies whose purpose is creating lively Web documents. The group issued the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification, which is geared to fuse the DOM and XPath technologies, which are often inconsistent with each other. DOM is the application […]

Intent on expanding its sphere of hardware server influence in North America, Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS) Monday said its Amdahl Canada brand is being folded into Fujitsu as part of a worldwide campaign to narrow the company’s focus. The new Fujitsu Technology Solutions Canada brand brings Fujitsu’s Solaris-compatible, SPARC-based servers, known as the Primepower line, […]

If you were a electronic marketplace proprietor in the late ’90s, you were likely confident that you were going to make good money. The prospect that you could build a virtual marketplace, match buyers and sellers in an industry, help them consummate transactions, and make money by charging a small fee might have seemed like […]

Customer relationship management concern Salesforce.com Thursday introduced a new offering that bundles its CRM software with Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail software without having to rely on additional server integration. The San Francisco firm said the Outlook Integration solution lets sales and customer service personnel send and receive e-mail messages through Outlook and log relevant messages in […]

MySQL AB, which hawks a popular open source database to shake market share loose from such entrenched industry mainstays as Oracle and IBM, said Tuesday its flagship product is ready for public use and supports Intel Itanium 2 processors running Linux. The Swedish concern said MySQL 4.0.12 passed a series of tests with no fatal […]

It took only two days for Microsoft to decide it didn’t like what it saw out of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Services Choreography working group earlier this month. Then it high-tailed it out of there, leaving stunned group members in their wake. According to a W3C spokesperson, the working group for WS-Choreography, which […]

With the rush to snap up software that will manage other software applications, BMC Software Tuesday purchased privately-held IT Masters International S.A. for about $42 million in cash. Prior to the purchase, Houston’s BMC had already been a leader in enterprise management software, but buying Belgian’s IT Masters will help it add breadth to its […]

Commerce One is turning over a new leaf. Quiet for awhile, the Pleasanton, Calif. concern Monday embarked on its new Web services strategy with the release of a software integration platform it hopes to sell to enterprises looking to put some zip in their management of business processes. The former electronic marketplace software concern, feeling […]

Veritas Software, a data backup and recovery software firm, Monday offered the public a new, more tightly integrated version of Veritas Global Data Manager, which, unlike its ancestors, manages and monitors backup and recovery processes for both the company’s NetBackup and Backup Exec products. Veritas Global Data Manager, which previously managed NetBackup but not Backup […]

In its latest bid for survival, SONICblue Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and moved to sell three of its subsidiaries for $52.5 million. The embattled Santa Clara, Calif. maker of consumer electronics, which has been bleeding cash for more than a year and trying to get in the black, also agreed to sell its […]

Cisco Systems Thursday made serious overtures to tap the burgeoning home networking market when it bid to acquire The Linksys Group Inc. for $500 million in stock. Linksys, of Irvine, Calif., is a leading manufacturer of home networking products with a line of wired and wireless products for consumers and small office/home office (SOHO) users. […]

An end may soon be coming to one of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) most contentious issues — the reduction of the threat of blocking patents on vital pieces of infrastructure used to develop Web standards. The organization Wednesday began what it expects to be the final review of the proposed Royalty-Free Patent Policy, […]