Clint Boulton

Red Hat agreed to acquire open source middleware provider JBoss for $350 million, plus approximately $70 million subject to the fulfillment of performance metrics in the future. Red Hat will pay 40 percent in cash and 60 percent in stock for JBoss, a move Red Hat said will help its move into providing customers open […]

LAS VEGAS — The CTIA Wireless conference has been the hotbed of announcements from network equipment manufacturers, to cell phone makers and content providers. Their efforts were made public as the pulse of wireless adoption continues to quicken. The Wireless Association announced this week that the total number of estimated wireless customers in America is […]

LAS VEGAS — Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski said the networking company would look to exit businesses where it can’t gain at least a 20 percent market share. Zafirovski didn’t specify which businesses these might be. But the CEO spoke candidly to the press at the CTIA Wireless conference, acknowledging the company’s poor financial performance for […]

Las Vegas — Nortel announced the Wireless Mobility Gateway 6000 (WMG 6000), a new addition to its IP Multimedia Subsystems  suite that helps service providers offer personalized multimedia services across wireless, wireline or cable networks. The WMG 6000, which supports 3GPP (IMS), 3GPP2 (MMD), Packet Cable 2.0 and TISPAN standards, lets service providers merge 3G […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM today issued a “test drive” of its forthcoming DB2 Viper database server, a software release tuned for distributed computing environments that handles XML data and traditional relational data. This new spin includes DB2 Label Based Access Control (LBAC), which allows users to define structures within the database by labeling columns in […]

LAS VEGAS — The CTIA Wireless conference kicked off in grand fashion today, with several industry leaders celebrating the current benefits of wireless technologies with any eye toward the future. Of the handful of keynote speakers to take the stage today, Glenn Britt’s presence probably stood out the most. Why would the Chairman and CEO […]

LAS VEGAS — Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new telecommunications blade server built to take the beatings of any kind of foul weather. Unveiled at the CTIA Wireless Conference in Las Vegas, the Netra AdvancedTCA (ATCA) blade server family includes models powered by Sun’s UltraSPARC and AMD’s Opteron chips. The machines can run carrier-grade Solaris […]

IBM sharpened its focus on distributed computing with a new version of WebSphere Application Server and other software tools that make it easier for customers to run a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As first reported by internetnews.com, IBM is tailoring its new WAS for SOA, which allow applications to act as Web services  to execute business […]

Microsoft agreed to acquire business intelligence software specialist ProClarity Corp., a move that will increase the analysis and visualization technologies in its BI platform and pending Office 2007 suite. Financial terms were not disclosed. On paper at least, the move appears to be a natural fit for Microsoft. Since 1999, Boise, Idaho-based ProClarity has been […]

Lucent Technologies will form a subsidiary to perform classified research and development work for the U.S. government as part of its agreement to merge with French networking giant Alcatel. Should the $25 billion blockbuster merger win approval, certain contracts that Bell Labs and Lucent have with U.S. government agencies will be offloaded to the new […]

EMC today added new software solutions for helping customers find, retain and protect data from several digital sources. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports software were created to help customers search and retrieve information for compliance and legal discovery and content re-use. Both solutions corral and pinpoint data […]

The idea that a storage hardware start-up could succeed against entrenched players like IBM, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems seemed almost laughable a few years ago. The hardware sector slogged to a crawl after corporations were chastened by the reality of the ever-shrinking budgets. But Pillar Data Systems, a company created by Oracle CEO Larry […]