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Bruce Claflin is president and CEO of 3Com Corp., of Santa Clara, Calif. Like nearly all networking companies, 3Com has suffered several quarters of steep losses and has instituted layoffs and restructuring. Now trying to lead the company back to profitability, Claflin has sought to boost the companys cash position and focus on markets where […]

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NEW YORK—Veritas Software Corp. announced today Linux versions of its clustering and network-attached storage software, and promised future Linux products for IBMs zSeries server, Oracle Corp.s database and storage resource management software. “We see some of the largest enterprise clients we have no longer just kicking the tires,” Veritas Chairman, CEO and President Gary Bloom […]

Inrange Technologies Corp. lost President and CEO Sherrie Woodring today and promoted Kenneth Koch, the switch makers vice president and lawyer, to the top job, officials said. Woodring resigned for “personal reasons,” according to a statement from the Lumberton, N.J., subsidiary of Charlotte, N.C., firm SPX Corp. Officials today would not comment further on the […]

After Verizon Communications Inc. dropped plans to reintegrate Genuity Inc. this week, the Internet backbone service providers prospects for impending bankruptcy are rising. Nonetheless, Genuity officials said today that they anticipate continuing operations without service interruption. Verizons purportedly unexpected decision resulted in credit defaults for Genuity because the abandoned reintegration plan means the cancellation of […]

Is Microsoft at last conceding that the open-source world may have some new tricks to teach the old dogs in Redmond? Or is the Redmond software giant simply using new tactics to infiltrate the Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) camp? On Wednesday, Microsoft will announce an agreement with Covalent Technologies, a commercial vendor of secure Apache Web-server software. […]

Ive been contracting as an Oracle developer for seven years now. A year and a half ago, I quit my permanent job at an Internet startup just before they failed, and I took this contracting gig. I was getting a nice premium rate (for being available on such short notice) up until last December, when […]

Tape and network-attached storage maker Quantum Corp. made $211 million in revenue but had a net loss of $131 million for its first fiscal quarter of 2002, ended June 30, officials said today. “Although this was a disappointing quarter in terms of our financial results, there were positive aspects that explain why we believe Quantum […]

Frustrated with the complexity of maintaining his application service providers servers, Dev Ittycheria decided to market a better solution. Ittycherias now CEO of a new company, BladeLogic Inc., which last week launched version 4 of its BladeLogic server management application. “There still exists today a huge amount of inefficiency…its almost like a black art” to […]

Echoing customer needs, hardware maker Storage Technology Corp., also known as StorageTek, announced relative second-quarter losses Tuesday, while software firm Precise Software Solutions Ltd. continued to thrive. StorageTek reported revenues of $491.9 million in the quarter ending June 30, or $36 million less from the first quarter and $20.2 million less than a year ago. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., having confirmed that Dell Computer Corp. plans to launch its own brand of printers, on Tuesday notified the company that it is canceling its reseller agreement and planning to stop selling printers, scanners, handhelds and other supplies to its PC rival. HPs action follows months of speculation that Dell is planning to market […]

Storage backup specialist Legato Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced $61.6 million in second-quarter revenues, up $6 million from the first quarter, but with widening losses, officials said. “Legato made admirable progress in the second quarter … with the OTG Software business contributing just over $5 million,” said Chairman and CEO David Wright, referring to Legatos […]