Clint Boulton

Recent IDC research indicates that spending on virtualization will rocket to nearly $15 billion worldwide by 2009. To cut costs by consolidating servers, customers are partitioning smaller two- and four-way x86 volume servers with special software that helps carve up space on a server to run multiple operating systems, or applications. “Virtualization is a follow […]

The arrival of multi-core chip architectures and the proliferation in virtualization technologies is creating a sea change in the software industry. These creative methodologies, designed to help customers consolidate server farms and develop a more efficient use of existing computing resources, have many questioning how companies with set licensing schemes will charge for their software. […]

Oracle is losing its second CFO in a year. Greg Maffei is leaving the enterprise software company after four months on the job to take a position at another company. Oracle said Safra Catz, its co-president, will take on the duties for Maffei, who will remain with the company until November 15th to help with […]

Sun Microsystems is poised to make its Java software play nicely with Microsoft’s .NET software. Sun said today that it is forging open source implementations of the key Web services specifications required to interoperate with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft’s Web services platform, formerly known as Indigo. With the implementations, programmers will be able to […]

AMD is planning a full-scale assault on chipmaking rival Intel’s chunk of the burgeoning market for blade servers. During a conference call with Merrill Lynch semiconductor analyst Joseph Osha, Marty Seyer, general manager of AMD’s Commercial Business Unit, said sales of blade servers will blossom 40 percent over the next four years. The estimate, from […]

BEA Systems today made another small purchase in its quest for better development tools, acquiring object persistence specialist SolarMetric to improve the way Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 and Java EE 5 work together. SolarMetric is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, that makes a persistence engine. Called Kodo, the engine binds EJB 3.0 […]

The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) had a landmark day for XML development, recommending XSLT 2.0 and XML XQuery 1.0 as standards for transforming and querying XML. Such specs are considered to be crucial for accelerating the adoption of distributed computing models, such as Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) . But more important is […]

Sun Microsystems is celebrating its purchase of StorageTek by unveiling a powerful new enterprise tape drive. The Santa Clara, Calif., systems vendor announced the T10000 drive at FORUM 2005, the annual storage customer event led by StorageTek, in Washington D.C. today. The StorageTek purchase helped Sun broaden its storage portfolio line with its deep line […]

UPDATED: The Opera browser is jumping into the wild blue yonder along with in-flight entertainment provider Thales. The browser is getting first-class placement in Thales’ TopSeries in-flight entertainment (IFE) system designed for Boeing and Airbus single- and twin-aisle aircraft, thanks to a deal with the French company, which has operations in California. TopSeries is a […]

Dell today unveiled its new four-way PowerEdge servers, which are powered by the new dual-core, Intel Xeon 7000 (code-named Paxville) MP chips and (hot-off-the-coding board) SQL Server 2005 from Microsoft. The launch came during a media call staged by longtime partners Dell , Intel and Microsoft to showcase servers running the latest database software and […]

When Microsoft unveils its SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 products next week, it shouldn’t be seen so much as the release of three separate products but as the fruit of constant collaboration between Microsoft’s research team and the product specialists. The company said that a so-called “technology-transfer team” helped bridge […]

Fabric7 Systems aims to be the little fish that survives in the pond with huge competitors. The Mountain View, Calif., startup today introduced new, low-cost servers with an eye on taking share in the crowded market for computing machines populated by IBM, HP, Dell and Sun Microsystems. To do that, the startup needs an ace […]