Monthly Archives: April 2004
Oracle VP: MySQL Cluster Not a Threat
Analysts say big database vendors must be feeling the heat from open-source database providers such as MySQL AB, which on Wednesday rolled out its...
Project to Enable Mobile Phone Use on Planes
In one of the first major projects of its kind, a European Commission-funded consortium is preparing to trial a system designed to allow mobile...
Ultraportables: The Next Big Thing or a Flash in the Pan?
A new class of computing device known as ultraportable PCs is sparking debate here at eWEEK.com. Columnist Rob Enderle thinks that UPCs, which attempt...
Good-Bye Lindows, Hello Linspire
Caught between the rock of generally unsympathetic European courts and the hard place of a U.S. District Court that wouldnt stop Microsoft Corp. from...
New CEO: Egenera Changing Game in Linux, Virtualization
Despite the economic downturn, the past four years have been good to Egenera Inc. Founded in March 2000 by Vern Brownell, former chief technology...
OpenPages Buys PwC Compliance Software
Seeking to ramp up enterprise adoption of packaged Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance software, OpenPages Inc. on Wednesday announced it has acquired PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPs Internal Controls...
Venture Watch: Three Companies That Will Change Your Business
In times of economic distress, technology organizations in businesses tend to hunker down. The recession of the last three years, coming on the heels...
Oracle Releases New Java Tools
Oracle Corp. announced the availability of its latest Java and Web services development environment Wednesday and said its Java application server continues to see...
Analysts: MySQLs Cluster Version Puts Pressure on Big Database Vendors
With Wednesdays release of MySQL ABs MySQL Cluster version of its open-source database, the little Swedish company is beginning to swim in the same...
IBM Sells Some PowerPC 400 Series Technology
Two weeks after announcing that it was opening its Power processor architecture, IBM on Tuesday announced that it is selling three of its embedded...