Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS—IBM Corp. announced a host of new programs to bolster its relationships with its partners, including new e-hosting services, at this weeks Partnerworld 2004 conference here. IBM launched new small- and medium-business (SMB) sales incentives for resellers, including new managed hosting services based on the IBM iSeries of servers and the expansion of a […]

Its Super Tuesday and the results are in…the results of the Eclipse Foundations election, that is. According to sources, the newly-independent Eclipse Foundation has elected members to some of its key positions who will help govern the organization as it moves into its new role as the steward of the open-source Java-based development platform. According […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM Tuesday will announce a new approach to seeking business partners in select industries. At the IBM PartnerWorld conference here, Buell Duncan, IBMs general manager of independent software vendor and developer relations, told eWEEK that the company will announce Tuesday a new program to target key industries from which the Armonk, N.Y., systems giant […]

LAS VEGAS—IBMs oft-misunderstood on-demand strategy, though still evolving, lies at the heart of the companys message to customers, partners and suppliers. It was to IBMs partners that the companys leader attempted to shed light on the subject here Monday. IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano opened the IBM PartnerWorld 2004 conference with an extension of […]

IBM is calling Sun Microsystems Inc.s bluff and asking the Java steward to join in developing an open-source implementation of Java. The Armonk, N.Y., company made the proposal in an open letter to Sun last week. Sun officials said they planned to meet with IBM to discuss the merits of working with IBM on an […]

PHILADELPHIA—The chief executive officer of SAP America Inc. gave business school students a dose of his advice on entering the technology market and also took some time to joke about the status of a key competitor. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP AGs U.S. operations spoke as a keynoter at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton Schools […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. lost another key executive Wednesday when the company announced the departure of Patricia Sueltz, formerly executive vice president of Sun Services. Sueltz, 51, left Sun for Salesforce.com, where she will assume the position of president of marketing, technology and systems. Sueltz is scheduled to begin her tenure at Salesforce.com Thursday, Sun officials […]

IBM Corp. on Wednesday publicly challenged Sun Microsystems Inc. to join Big Blue in developing an open-source implementation of Java. In an open letter to Sun, IBM called the Java steward out to join it in an independent project to open-source Suns creation. IBM vice president of emerging Internet technologies, Rod Smith, sent the letter […]

In response to an open letter from IBM asking Sun Microsystems Inc. to join the company in developing an open-source version of Java, Sun plans to meet with IBM to discuss the issue, Sun sources said. Sun officials planned to meet with IBM as early as Thursday to discuss the merits of whether the company […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced new tools to help developers build more secure applications at the RSA 2004 Conference in San Francisco. As part of his keynote at the conference, Microsoft chairman and chief security architect Bill Gates laid out the Microsoft security vision, including technologies that will be rolled into Windows over the coming […]