Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard is so gung ho for making the grid a reality they are willing to put into everything they sell. CEO Carly Fiorina says her company plans on including grid-enabled software such as the Globus tool kit and new SGA standard version 3.0 into its servers and storage devices, of course, but […]

Looking to replace its aging UNIX systems, ATM and cash register maker NCR said Wednesday it has expanded its partnership with Sun Microsystems . The revised global alliance finds Dayton, Ohio-based NCR being able to sell and service Sun products in targeted markets. The agreement specifically hones in on Sun’s full line of entry to […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle said a federal probe into its $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft seems to be the only thing standing in the way of its goal. In a briefing with the press, Oracle Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips said approval from the U.S. Department of Justice is almost certain and subsequent […]

SAN FRANCISCO — More than 14,000 people were evacuated at two adjoining Internet trade shows after police received a handful of bomb threats. An estimated 11,000 attendees at the OracleWorld trade show at Moscone Center North and South and an additional 3,000 from the Seybold 2003 Show at the new Moscone West building were evacuated. […]

Helping to make more of a connection between man and machine, chipmaker Xilinx said it was chosen this week by the Swiss government to develop the “BioWall.” The interactive display is made up of self-regenerating electronic tissue and is designed to demonstrate the features of “Embryonics” (Embryonic Electronics). The idea is to create an electronic […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When Larry Ellison puts his mind to something, insiders say he usually he gets it. So it was no surprise that the Oracle czar had a few comments about his company’s current $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft . In a post-keynote Q&A session at the company’s OracleWorld 2003 conference here, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As if in direct response to Nicholas Carr’s May 2003 criticism that “IT Doesn’t Matter,” Intel CEO Craig Barrett replied with a resounding — “IT matters a whole lot!” “Without the latest IT infrastructure, we couldn’t design our next generation processors,” said Barrett during his keynote at OracleWorld here. “Let me take […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy refuted claims that his company was in danger because of its overweight research and development division. “This is not about getting a 1U box, mail order to solve your problem. It takes more than that,” McNealy said in rebuttal to rival Michael Dell’s jabs Monday. “We have […]

If you can’t access your favorite betting site or eBay auction the next time you are at work, consider it the fault of Websense . The San Diego-based software company, which touts itself as a “provider of employee Internet management solutions,” Monday said it has secured a patent for parts of its core technology. U.S. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — AMD Tuesday released two new additions to its Opteron processor family specifically targeted with grid computing in mind. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said the new models: 846 and 146 will sell for $3,199 and $669 in 1,000 units respectively. AMD will market the two chips for 4 to 8-way small enterprise […]

Intel Monday said it will begin offering a large cache of its technical and architecture information as part of a new online collection. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker said it is working with Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft to bring the Intel Developer Library to the masses. Intel said the collection represents millions of pages […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Dell Monday showed off its premiere relationship with Oracle by offering new services between the two companies. Dell said Oracle on his company’s computers is becoming the standard in the data center more than it ever has in the past, such as its Oracle 9i RAC running Red Hat Linux based on […]