Clint Boulton

Upwards of 40,000 mobile gadget aficionados, business executives and people in between will travel to Las Vegas next week to check out cutting-edge content and communications products. The event, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) Wireless 2006 show, is the most lauded in the wireless industry for consistently showcasing technologies and handheld devices that […]

IBM launched the latest jab in its bout with Microsoft, offering partners up to $20,000 to help customers move from Exchange to Linux-based versions of Lotus Notes and Domino. Aimed at Microsoft’s corporate e-mail accounts, Big Blue calls the poaching play “Migrate to the Penguin.” The maneuver is the latest by IBM to get customers […]

For customers looking for better performance and availability on an Oracle database, Sun Microsystems is about to salute you. Sun next week will begin offering Cluster Advanced Edition for Oracle Real Application Clusters on its Java Availability Suite. The move will help customers better run a clustered Oracle Database 10g on the Solaris 10 operating […]

IBM is planning a significant announcement Monday concerning the company’s growing service-oriented architecture (SOA) effort to help companies tuck their software applications into distributed computing systems, internetnews.com has learned. The company declined to comment ahead of the event, but several sources said the news centers around a continuation of IBM’s software and services onslaught, which […]

Thanks to the explosion in data and the imminent certainty of compliance regulations, even small and medium businesses (SMBs) are being forced to spend more on storage. Research firm IDC said it expects 2006 to be a breakout year for storage among SMBs, fueled by the proliferation of broadband and local area networks (LAN) that […]

U.S. data centers are starting to look trimmer and run faster thanks to virtualization and automation tools, according to research firm IDC. The Framingham, Mass., company said data centers are becoming more utilized and therefore denser and hotter. The number of pieces of data center equipment is also slimming down to include fewer machines. For […]

Open source firm JBoss is adding more flesh to its service oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio for the enterprise market with new open source JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server products. JBoss Messaging is a standards-based messaging platform geared to help big corporations communicate via computers. JBoss Web offers high-performance Web server capabilities to Apache Tomcat […]

BMC Software today agreed to purchase Identify Software Ltd. for $150 million in cash, a move that will add a new dimension of management software to BMC’s business services management portfolio. Tel Aviv-based Identify makes application problem resolution (APR) software, which helps business customers pinpoint glitches in J2EE, .NET and Windows applications before they can […]

It may not be as sexy as Windows Vista or Office 2007, but BizTalk Server remains a core piece of Microsoft’s middleware. The company said today that it has released to manufacturing BizTalk Server 2006, a business process management (BPM) server that helps customers integrate applications within Microsoft environments. BPM software helps distributed computing systems, […]

Amid the bombshell news from earlier this week that Windows Vista would be delayed, Microsoft has pushed back its Office 2007 release. Microsoft said Office 2007 would be delayed until next year, a move that will coincide with the delay of the highly-anticipated Windows Vista operating system. The software giant had originally planned to make […]

Microsoft restructured its Platforms & Services Division (PSD) today, taking action after announcing that the consumer edition of the Vista operating system would be delayed until 2007. The new PSD organization includes eight groups led by PSD Co-President Kevin Johnson and Co-President Jim Allchin, who will retire next year. PSD includes three new groups: Windows […]

Sun’s first day on the public grid ended up being a less-than-stellar one. The systems vendor said a denial-of-service attack knocked down a pilot version of its Grid Compute Utility while running a text-to-speech application from a company called Cepstral that was hosted on the grid. The DDOS attack on Sun’s grid was executed by […]