Clint Boulton

In Apple’s recent TV campaign, a Mac user assures a hapless Windows user there’s a place for him on the Mac. But Herndon, Va., startup Parallels is rolling out a much better welcome mat than Apple’s. Following the conclusion of a beta program it said some 100,000 testers participated in, company has released the commercial […]

Reporter’s Notebook: This week, I began to look at Microsoft as a vendor serious about securing computers after it unveiled its ForeFront brand at Tech Ed 2006 in Boston. I’m not trying to be a pessimist. The company has done a number of things in the last handful of years to build up to this […]

Oracle provided a glimpse Wednesday of the next iteration of its software for helping customers and partners corral the increase of Office documents, PDF files, spreadsheets and other unstructured files. Oracle President Chuck Phillips and company executives introduced Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database at a Web cast event from Oracle headquarters. Phillips said […]

Oracle added a new weapon to fight Salesforce.com and SAP in the battle for on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software, acquiring software maker Telephony@Work for an undisclosed sum. Telephony@Work makes CallCenterAnywhere, a software stack that supports hosted contact center services. CallCenterAnywhere was designed as an alternative to custom programming and systems integration. The software’s ability […]

BOSTON — UPDATED: Microsoft said it is putting the finishing touches on the next generation of its e-mail server and will pump out the second beta of Exchange Server 2007 in July. Announced here at Tech Ed 2006, the software is oriented for the mobile worker: Exchange Server 2007 will support searches on a smartphone […]

Opsware, which specializes in software that automates data center operations, said it has upgraded its two core products, added two new ones, and lumped them into one platform. Opsware System 6 marks a departure from the company’s sales approach. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company has traditionally offered its server automation and server products separately. As of […]

Network storage specialist Network Appliance today made its play in the high-performance Linux computing market, unveiling an operating system that stores and retrieves data from Linux clusters faster than typical storage arrays. The software, which will run on NetApp’s new FAS6070 and FAS3050 storage arrays, allows single files or file clusters to be presented to […]

BOSTON — Microsoft  officials introduced a new brand of security software, called ForeFront, at the company’s Tech Ed 2006 event here Sunday night. Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the server and tools business at Microsoft, said ForeFront will include Forefront Client Security, and enhanced version of the company’s Microsoft Client Protection software for protecting […]

Cisco Systems agreed to acquire application development startups Metreos Corp. and Audium Corp. in separate deals for a total of $47.8 million in cash. The purchase bids are intended to add drag-and-drop application development environments to Cisco’s Unified Communications system, which allows business customers to combine their communications systems with their IT infrastructure. Cisco said […]

NEW YORK — For years, EMC was the vendor that competed with IBM, HP and several others in the market for storage hardware from an outpost in Hopkinton, Mass. EMC is still that company in Hopkinton, but it’s double the size and is no longer so one dimensional. The vendor has added a number of […]

Microsoft has made its mark bringing affordable software to customers at the low end of the market. But sometimes the low end and high end meet somewhere in the middle. The software giant today released to manufacturers the finished, “golden” bits of its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a software package that runs high-performance computing […]

IBM next month will release the next version of its DB2 Universal Database, a software server loaded with the ability to process XML data. IBM and Oracle have been leapfrogging each other with new technological capabilities every two years or so in the multi-billion-dollar market for managing data. But IBM believes the DB2 9 will […]