Chris Preimesberger

The Woz is in the news again.Steve Wozniak, co-founder and former chief technologist of Apple Computer, revealed March 24 that he is joining DeepDyve, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search engine startup, as an advisory board member.Wozniak, 59, has been busy lately. In addition to his high-visibility role on ABC-TV’s “Dancing With the Stars,” he joined solid-state […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Open-source software and middleware, which is now populating every part of modern data centers, has always had to fight a reputation-deserved or undeserved-of being simply too “Wild West” for many enterprises. Not so anymore, Alfresco’s general manager for the Americas, Matt Asay, told a near full-house audience in his opening remarks at the sixth […]

Data deduplication specialist Data Domain March 23 became the latest storage vendor to announce the option of quad-core processors in its architecture for midrange systems. Data Domain’s DD660 system is really a combination server/storage architecture, with the x86 quad-core chips running the system in the controller. Intel unveiled the first quad-core storage server — the […]

What do Cisco Systems’ key competitors in the data center systems business really think of the big networking fish that will soon be flopping around in their pond, trying to gain new market share?Cisco announced on March 16 its Unified Computing System strategy, which includes the production of new network-centric server, software and services that […]

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 […]