Clint Boulton

UPDATED:Intel and Micron today agreed to form a new company to manufacture NAND Flash memory, the storage technology used in iPod digital music players, USB drives and smartphones. IM Flash Technologies, LLC, will only manufacture products for Micron and Intel, two chipmaking giants with enough capital, intellectual property and personnel to snatch a good portion […]

SMILE if you like messaging middleware that makes it easier to integrate distributed applications in a service-oriented architecture. IBM researchers are developing a new type of messaging middleware system, called Smart Middleware Light Ends (SMILE), to simplify the integration of applications from different vendors. Current SOA and Web services models for developers handling multiple requests […]

BEA Systems posted a third quarter profit of 11 percent compared to last year, thanks to an uptick in licenses and services for its new AquaLogic product line. The San Jose, Calif., software maker said its profit rose to $37.1 million, or 9 cents a share, up from $33.5 million, or 8 cents a share, […]

The battle between two next-generation DVD formats is creating such a stir that some companies are threatening to support both technologies if they don’t get their way. Blu-ray supporter HP said this week that it could see itself also supporting rival standard HD-DVD if the Blu-ray Disc Association doesn’t include in the standard two technologies […]

Equity firm Alta Communications and investor Emily Nagle Green acquired high-tech research pioneer Yankee Group for an undisclosed sum. Green, a research industry executive who has been a CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a manager at Forrester Research, will take over as CEO for Yankee Group President and CEO Brian Adamik, who is […]

IBM hopes to strike hard and fast with its next database software, which features more native XML tools to help customers better tap into data housed throughout a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Just released to customers, developers and partners for open beta testing, DB2 Viper is the first database crafted to integrate and manage native XML […]

UPDATED: Oracle made a bid to make its identity management portfolio the strongest of its rivals CA and IBM, acquiring privately held specialists Thor Technologies and OctetString for an undisclosed sum. U.K.-based Thor specializes in ID provisioning across different platforms, while OctetString is a top provider of virtual directory software. The software from both companies […]

Reaffirming its allegiance to Sun Microsystems, Oracle said today that it has picked Sun’s open Solaris 10 operating system (OS) as its preferred development and runtime platform for most x64 architectures. Oracle’s development group will use Solaris 10, and the Redwood Shores, Calif., company also plans to ship 64-bit versions of all of its products […]

The year may be starting to wind down, but Microsoft’s deluge of last-quarter software releases is still going strong. The company announced more server software updates and timetables for upcoming business applications during IT Forum 2005 in Barcelona Spain today. With an emphasis on software support for 64-bit computing , company officials said Microsoft Exchange […]

Microsoft’s plan to use the Internet to provide software services may be garnering the lion’s share of attention, but the software giant is pretty keen on making headway in a sector where it is a relative unknown: high-performance computing. The company is expected to unveil Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 today, a new piece of […]

IBM today announced new software to help companies make better use of the data scattered throughout their organizations. The WebSphere products, targeting the so-called “master data management software” market, are designed to present companies with a summary view of their customers, products and other data. The goal of master data management, a niche IDC says […]

Hoping the public will forgive its past financial shenanigans, CA embarked on the next leg of its comeback journey with an emboldened management software strategy and a re-branding and advertising push it calls “Believe Again.” Believe Again is CA’s bid to show the public that it has fully recovered from crushing accounting improprieties that hindered […]