Monthly Archives: November 2001
Brocade Beats Estimates, Touts Growth
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. on Wednesday beat analyst expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter, and touted a growth in annual revenue.The storage networking technology...
Openwave to Cut 300 Workers
Wireless Web software maker Openwave Systems Inc. on Thursday confirmed that the company will lay off at least 300 workers this week. The total...
Avanade Moves Into Portal Implementation
Avanade Inc. expanded its service offerings beyond Microsoft Corp.s Windows 2000 migration planning and .Net solutions to add a new portal implementation service based...
XO Goes to the Bargain Bin
Add XO Communications to the list of distressed properties bought on the cheap by Forstmann Little and Mexicos leading financier, Carlos Slim Helu.XO announced...
New Investments Boost XO Communications
Struggling broadband services provider XO Communications, Inc. on Thursday announced two major new investments in the company totaling $800 million, but also that current...
IBM Adds Data Mining, Infiniband Features to DB2
IBM on Wednesday announced two new features for its high-end DB2 7.2 database, one for data mining and the other for server and application...
Jobs Sounds Off on Microsoft Settlement
The Senate Judiciary Committee has weighed in on the proposed antitrust case settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the federal government, and has scheduled a...
Microsoft Rolls Out Embedded XP
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the availability of Windows XP Embedded, a scaled-down version of the Windows XP operating system that runs on devices...
IBM to Lay Off 1,000 Employees
IBM Corp. said on Wednesday that it will eliminate about 1,000 jobs at several of its U.S. chip manufacturing, storage and development plants.Sluggish sales...
What Happens if Excite@Home Shuts Down?
Speculation about the immediate future of cable data-service provider Excite@Home has to center on one overarching question: What would happen to the bankrupt service...