Clint Boulton

Oracle may want to squash Microsoft in the business software market but it isn’t about to alienate both companies’ share in the process. Oracle’s Grid Control management tool will now care for Microsoft and Oracle programs running on the same computers, Oracle said today. Oracle’s Grid Control’s alerts, performance data collection and trending tools may […]

Increasing sales of low-cost servers was likely the culprit for the first quarterly decline in revenue since the first quarter of 2003, according to new IDC research. Server market sales for the fourth quarter were $14.5 billion, though 2005 was a fine year for server sales in general. IDC said worldwide server revenue grew 4.4 […]

In the search for new chip form factors to carry the torch that is Moore’s Law, IBM researchers this week said they have found a way to build smaller chip circuits. The method could stave off the industry’s move to expensive alternatives for another seven years, the company’s engineers said in a statement from the […]

Feel like building a site to sell your wares? Microsoft this week issued the first beta of its Commerce Server 2006, unveiling the qualities that will help the software engine drive e-commerce sites to sell products. Commerce Server 2006 helps customers build e-commerce applications and Web sites based on Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) […]

Microsoft has taken its System Management Server 2003 software into its second release as a beta, adding new features that check for configuration blunders and improve its ability to track down security exploits. SMS 2003 R2 is a software distribution and computer asset management tool designed to help medium to large-sized businesses update third-party and […]

Bill Coleman has some experience starting companies. After all, he is the “B” in BEA Systems, a middleware maker who made a killing in the application server space throughout the 90s. During Coleman’s tenure as BEA’s first CEO, the company became the fastest software firm ever to top $1 billion in annual revenue. Now he’s […]

Corporations today spend so much time keeping external viruses, bugs and perpetrators out of their computer systems that they sometimes leave internal holes wide open. IBM wants to fill them. With the RSA Security show winding down, the company today unveiled Tivoli Identity Manager Express, a software package that helps small businesses combat insider security […]

Don’t let the winds of speculation swirling around Oracle fool you. The company has its sights set on more than just open source software makers these days. The company, which has spent the last two years buying and integrating applications specialists, today agreed to buy telecommunications software maker HotSip AB for an undisclosed sum. HotSip’s […]

NEW YORK — IBM today announced a $1 billion investment in information management software, a space the company expects to top $69 billion by 2009. The company, intent on gaining a big slice of that pie at the expense of rivals Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, also unveiled two new software products from its WebSphere brand. […]

Sun Microsystems today took its next-generation Java platform for a spin, with the beta release of Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). Code-named Project Mustang, the test run includes improved support for Web services , scripting language and desktop applications. Java SE 6 is entering a computing world that has shifted before Sun […]

Sun Microsystems today reaffirmed its commitment to Linux. Through its OpenSPARC initiative, the company made its UltraSPARC architecture 2005 and HyperVisor API specifications available to programmers under the General Public License (GPL). Software developers will be able to freely port Linux, BSD and other middleware and applications to the UltraSPARC T1 processor. Sunil Joshi, senior […]

IBM upgraded its Unix server series with the System p5 560Q four-core module machine, which the company claims rivals the performance of most 16-way systems on the market. The new machine, now the king of the Q series p5 servers for midrange customers, uses IBM’s latest Power5+ chip with Quad-Core Module (QCM) multithreading technology to […]