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With all the drama and intrigue of the bitter six-month proxy battle behind them, Hewlett-Packard Co. executives are finally ready to roll out a new and much bigger company that includes all the assets and liabilities of Compaq Computer Corp. The Palo Alto, Calif., company late last week completed its long-disputed, roughly $19 billion buyout […]

Virus Creator Gets 20 Months He let loose a computer virus that did $80 million in damage, and now David Smith will spend the next 20 months in jail for it. Smith, who created the Melissa virus, pleaded guilty to state and federal charges in 1999 and was sentenced last week for what he called […]

Remember software assurance, Microsofts controversial enterprise license agreement that purports to offer corporate customers big savings if theyll just commit in advance to buying a certain volume of Microsoft products and paying an annual fee? The deadline for enterprises to sign up for the plan is July 31. As IT managers prepare to decide whether […]

While next months Supercomm 2002 is likely to have the uneasy feel of a picnic at a funeral, the annual telecom extravaganza remains a must for most equipment makers, both old and new. About 800 suppliers are scheduled to show their stuff at the Georgia World Congress Center, even though they expect to find few, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will herald the “new HP” Tuesday morning at a news conference in Cupertino, Calif., hosted by HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and ex-Compaq Computer Corp. Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas. The company will also have briefings nationwide with its top 100 corporate customers, during which the company will finally divulge its product […]

EMC Corp., the largest maker of enterprise storage hardware, is in transition. The Hopkinton, Mass., vendor—which started as a furniture company in 1979 and went on to overtake IBMs storage dominance in the 1990s—recorded its first losing quarter in 12 years in November. CEO and President Joe Tucci responded by reorganizing EMC into engineering/manufacturing, software […]

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Although most big storage vendors tout the advantages of networked storage, direct-attached systems still dominate, and they use the traditional SCSI standards. The newest technology is serial-attached SCSI (SAS), which is a way of using ordinary serial interfaces for SCSI storage devices. Doing so could ease network traffic and bandwidth, because SCSI uses point-to-point connections […]

When management wants to measure something now or predict something yet to occur, a software developer will probably have to come up with the final form of the algorithm that yields the answer. With last weeks announcement of consumers access (pay-per view or subscription) to their FICO credit-worthiness scores, we have a particular reason to […]

After more than seven months of contentious debate and high-profile court battle, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Friday announced that it has completed its $19 billion buyout of longtime rival Compaq Computer Corp. Together, the companies have more than 150,000 employees, operate in more than 160 countries and have annual revenues of more than $80 billion, making […]

Enterprise storage customers say they do not expect to be impressed when Hitachi Ltd. rolls out its new Freedom 9980 high-end storage monolith and TrueNorth software next week at the Networld+Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas. Customers of EMC Corp.s Symmetrix line, who are the main target of Tokyo-based Hitachis new offering, say they dont see […]

Career Coach is a column that gives IT professionals a chance to pose questions about training, certification, salaries or any other career-related issues to eWEEKs panel of IT managers, hiring and training experts. Dear Career Coach: I am a 29-year-old professionally trained programmer (C++, VB, COM) with a Project Management Professional certification and a bachelors […]