Clint Boulton

The European Commission’s antitrust group said that Microsoft  met a Thursday deadline to submit a revised version of the interoperability documentation the agency requested nearly three years ago. But it could take the EC months to test and verify the compliance of the documentation, which Microsoft said comprised more than 100 documents spanning 8,500 pages. […]

Two more software pirates are out of the application booty business. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), which doggedly pursues people who sell pirated software for a discount, said this week that it settled with two defendants who were illegally selling Symantec software through eBay. Kevin Liu and G.T. Tian, two New Jersey-based defendants […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded IBM  and Cray  roughly $500 million Tuesday to develop supercomputers that run advanced computations at unprecedented speed and performance for national security. The machines will be used to facilitate phase three of DARPA’s High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS), created to spur development of advanced supercomputers for testing […]

EMC Corporation  has spent a great deal of effort marketing and selling its enterprise content management (ECM) platform since acquiring Documentum. Now the information systems vendor wants its original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to get in on the action. EMC has created Documentum OEM Edition, a version of its ECM platform tailored for OEMs. This means […]

As a journalist in the high-tech space, every now and then I get to hear things that make me think two companies would be a perfect marriage. Not that I’m advocating that companies land on other companies and absorb them, even though it gives us more to talk, pontificate and write about. But sometimes two […]

There’s no denying it: buying security is in vogue. In a year of constant headlines about data breaches, the loss of laptops and identity theft risks — coupled with more strict compliance regulations, vendors are noodling new and improved ways to help customers protect their networks. Single sign-on, authentication, authorization: they’re all significant pieces of […]

Ex-CA CEO Sanjay Kumar is facing 12 years in federal prison for masterminding an accounting scheme that netted some $2.2 billion, cost CA shareholders $400 million and devastated the enterprise software company’s credibility. CA  is striking back. The software maker has filed a lawsuit against Kumar and is looking to recoup the $14.9 million it […]

Looking to capitalize on the burgeoning growth of virtualization software, infrastructure software provider BEA Systems  will unveil a virtualized version of its WebLogic application server, internetnews.com has learned. BEA said in a note, viewed by internetnews.com, that the company plans to announce that its WebLogic software will run on hypervisor software, as part of a […]

Failing to find the right fit to buy its development tools business, Borland Software Corporation  said it would carve the group out as a subsidiary, called CodeGear. The news came concurrent with the software maker’s third-quarter earnings, in which it announced a net loss of $12.2 million, and appointment of new CFO Erik Prusch, formerly […]

IBM’s BlueGene/L system is still king of the supercomputing heap, according to the 28th list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers unveiled at the Supercomputing 2006 show in Tampa, Fla. today. The annual “TOP500” list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany. BlueGene/L, a massive network of servers used to […]

Open Text Corp. , one of the last largest free-standing enterprise content management (ECM) vendors after significant acquisitions this year, will offer a major upgrade to its LiveLink ECM system today at a customer event in Phoenix. At the LiveLinkUp 2006 conference, the Canadian company also plans to announce its first integration milestone from its […]

Much is made about identity management on the Web these days, with terms like single sign-on, authorization and authentication liberally tossed around. Try this one on for size: entitlement. Securent today entered from stealth mode with a mind to tackle what CEO Rajiv Gupta said is the next layer of protecting applications in an Internet […]