Monthly Archives: April 2005
Isilons Clustered NAS Solutions Aim at the Enterprise
Isilon Systems, a provider of intelligent clustered storage systems, has introduced a new line of products with greater scalability, capacity and throughput than its...
Study Finds Windows More Reliable than Linux
Microsoft Corp. has moved its focus away from sponsoring studies that compare the total cost of ownership for Windows and Linux, and is now...
Search Is the New Killer App
When IAC bought Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion last month, experts were not saying that IAC overpaid—quite the contrary. That gives you some idea...
AFP Accuses Google of Copyright Infringement
Agence France-Presse became the latest adventurer to dive into the Internet "fair use" quagmire when it filed a complaint recently for copyright infringement against...
HP Finds Its Man in NCRs Hurd
Mark Hurd is no Carly Fiorina, and that is exactly what the Hewlett-Packard Co. board of directors was looking for in its new CEO.
Fiorina...
Companies Gain by Swapping Software
No security alarms went off when ring maker Jostens recently lifted Best Buys homegrown application integration software. Thats because Minneapolis-based Jostens wasnt stealing from...
Oracle Stakes Its Claim to ID Management Market
With last weeks purchase of Oblix, Oracle made clear that it is not planning to cede the lucrative and growing enterprise identity management market...
Despite Losses, BlackBerry Maker Doesnt Fear Magneto
BlackBerry device maker RIM posted a loss in the fourth quarter as a result of settling its three-year patent dispute with NTP. Despite this...
Oracle Takes Control of Retek
Oracle has taken control of Retek after 83 percent of shareholders tendered outstanding stock, the company announced Tuesday.
Oracle Corp. announced its intentions to buy...
SEC to Vote on Rule Changes
After months of debate, the SEC was set to vote on a package of rule changes, known as Regulation NMS, on Wednesday.
The intent of...