Chris Preimesberger

The Wall Street Journal reported late March 20 that the IBM-Sun Microsystems merger has been held up for a few extra days due to additional due diligence in looking at Sun’s many complicated licensing agreements involving Linux, Solaris, Open Solaris and other technologies. Sun, in fact, may have some of the most complicated licensing paperwork […]

All the indicators point one way: The acquisition of one of the most innovative, risk-taking and open-source-minded IT companies in the world, Sun Microsystems, by the world’s oldest and arguably largest IT corporation, IBM, is a done deal.All that remains is for the ink on the legalese to dry. That’s what several eWEEK sources are […]

An IBM–Sun Microsystems merger would certainly not be all about storage. Or servers. Or cloud computing. Or any other one particular area of IT.These two Gigantors are far too broad-based for this potential unification to be pinned on any one technology. However, a merger would certainly be about sales and marketing of all of the […]

Since The Station covers enterprise software/hardware/services for eWEEK most of the time, we don’t often get over to Cupertino to visit Apple. Yes, Apple has the Xserve, and yes, it has many loyal customers in smaller and midsize businesses, especially in the creative arts and home user verticals. Apple is a huge player in the […]

CUPERTINO, Calif. – If you think people can do a lot of things on their iPhones now, wait until the new version of the operating system becomes standard later this year.It won’t be too long before you’re listening to a fellow iPhone user’s iTunes music collection, computing your insulin dosage in seconds if you are […]

Scenes from the Apple iPhone OS 3 Roll Out No Title An Apple spokesman introduces the new features of the iPhone 3.0 software developers kit at the campus in Cupertino, Calif. No Title Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president for iPhone software, points out a number of the new capabilities of the iPhone 3.0 operating […]

Today’s Cisco Systems press/analyst conference in San Jose to launch the company’s new Unified Computing System wasn’t unlike a lot of other press events we so-called “journos” attend. But it had its memorable moments. First of all, Cisco’s ebullient CEO, John Chambers, who really did not want to identify possible competitors in the new-generation data […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Reaction to Cisco Systems’ launch of its Unified Computing System data center platform came swiftly on March 16, and the reviews were clearly mixed. A lot of IT people and companies apparently were interested in this news, which cuts across all parts of the data center: software, hardware, services, virtualization, storage, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cisco Systems officially entered the data center systems business March 16, with CEO John Chambers comparing the move to previous landmark networking initiatives that had routers developing into switches in 1993 and PBX to VOIP telephony a few years later. Rather generically called the “Cisco Unified Computing System,” the initiative consists […]

March 16, 2009, stands to be a pretty big day in the long, successful history of Cisco Systems.It’s been a not-very-well-kept “secret” for years that the world’s No. 1 networking company has wanted to shed the image of being the pipefitter for the Internet and delve deeper into what really makes the new-generation data center […]

Forrester Research has unearthed more evidence that cloud computing, also known as software as a service, is rapidly gaining traction in new vertical business sectors.The Cambridge, Mass.-based IT researcher said in a new report published March 13 that providers are now finding success selling SAAS subscription applications in Web conferencing, collaboration, and ITSM (IT service […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Analysts and researchers have been saying it for months — perhaps even a couple of years — but the idea that enterprise use of software as a service may now be the hottest sector of IT is now being quantified by those actually using it in the real world. According to industry […]