Monthly Archives: January 2003
Linux Brings In $1 Billion in Revenue for IBM
NEW YORK—IBM executives are preparing to announce at the LinuxWorld trade show here that the company received more than $1 billion in revenue from...
Veritas Upgrades Backup Exec
Veritas Software Corp. Wednesday announced Backup Exec 9.0, the first upgrade to the companys popular Windows-based product in 18 months.The new version, which is...
Red Hat Chief Speaks Out
NEW YORK—Proprietary software applications often result in bad architecture, which locks in users and is a cause for concern, Red Hat chief technology officer...
Score One for Benchmarks
Lately, court decisions havent been filling me with a whole lot of joy. From the Supreme Court saying that if Congress decides to extend...
Dell Touts Blades in Clusters
NEW YORK—Dell Computer Corp. is touting its newly released blade servers and a new partner network in the high performance computing space.At the LinuxWorld...
Motorola Forecasts a Brighter 2003
Although Motorola Inc. expects sales to slow down in the first quarter after a relatively successful holiday season, it is expecting 2003 to be...
HP Wields 4-Processor Blade Server
Hewlett-Packard Co. is aiming to drive blade server technology deeper into the enterprise.The Palo Alto, Calif., company this week is unveiling a four-processor blade...
IBM, Voltaire Team on InfiniBand for DB2
Voltaire Inc. is offering users of IBMs DB2 database technology a way to run their transaction-heavy applications on cheaper, entry-level servers linked by InfiniBand...
Microsoft to Buy PlaceWare
Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Web conferencing service provider PlaceWare Inc.Terms of the deal, which...
WD Caviar Drives Reach 250 Gbytes
Western Digital Corp. today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 Gbyte-per-platter technology, which will produce PC hard drives that can store up...