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Jack Messman, chairman, president and CEO of Novell Inc., is creating a new Novell following its acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., a year ago. Last week, Novell, of Provo, Utah, paid about $212 million for SilverStream Software Inc., of Billerica, Mass., a maker of Web services and application server software. The […]

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Loudcloud Inc., originally an IT management outsourcer, announced a crucial strategy change today, repositioning itself as a software company and selling its services efforts to Electronic Data Systems Corp. Loudcloud will now be called Opsware Inc., taking up the product name of its core software suite, which was updated last month. “The EDS licensing agreement […]

Intel Corp. is gearing up its marketing machine for the launch of Itanium 2 this summer, hoping to ignite demand for the chip among buyers of 64-bit servers, the most lucrative computer market segment, where prices often exceed $1 million a server. While Itanium has suffered from sluggish sales since introduced last year, Intel remains […]

Microsoft Corp., which released its Office XP desktop productivity suite last May, has been hard at work on the next-version upgrade, the first beta of which is due for release later this year. Steven Sinofsky, the senior vice president of Office at Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., recently talked to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about […]

Think beefing up your résumé with Web services credentials would be a good idea right about now? With the recent release of the first two .NET developer certification exams from Microsoft, you can begin doing just that. The new exams, Developing Windows-based Applications with Visual Basic .NET and Developing Windows-based Applications with Visual C#, are […]

Apple Computer Inc. will soon start shipping its first rack-mounted server, initially marketing it to existing Mac customers, but with long-term hopes that its Unix-based system will eventually win over skeptical enterprise users that have avoided the company so far. But despite the dual-processor Xserves impressive features and the stability of the Unix-based operating system, […]

Storage-area networks are becoming more commonplace, as are tools to help manage their complexities, and new examples of both will come from Sun Microsystems Inc. next week. SAN 4.0 is the Palo Alto, Calif., companys first system to use 2-Gb products throughout, sources close to the company said. It will work with 16-port switches and […]

Storage switcher McData Corp. will promote President and COO John Kelley, known as a turn-around specialist, to the CEO post this summer. The move will happen in August at the Broomfield, Colo. companys annual board of directors and shareholder meetings, Kelley said in an interview today. Jack McDonnell, the current chairman and CEO, will retain […]

What would a cross between Microsofts BizTalk application-integration server and Office desktop look like? BizOffice. BizOffice is a Microsoft product under development that is aimed at enabling a corporation to e-business-enable hundreds of trading partners in a quick, seamless fashion. Think of it as Microsoft Office made over into a business-information client. Theres no word […]

Intel Corp. is preparing to release its first 2GHz mobile processor on June 24, sources said, but the chip wont come cheap. The move also highlights Intels efforts to move up release of its Pentium 4-M products before the introduction of a new mobile chip, code-named Banias, in the first half of next year. At […]

Outsourcing is a subset of the storage market that never succeeded, but at LiveVault Corp., the sub-subset of data backup for mid-market customers is expanding, not contracting. Until now, LiveVault only backed up users individual servers, as co-branded services through Compaq Computer Corp. and Iron Mountain Inc., but tomorrow the Marlboro, Mass. company will announce […]