eWEEK EDITORS

Frustrated by a lack of sales, Dell Computer Corp. is going to pull the plug on its Itanium-based workstation, according to sources at the company. The withdrawal of the Dell Precision Workstation 730 would mark another setback in Intel Corp.s efforts to boost relatively lackluster sales of its first 64-bit processor targeted for use in […]

German enterprise software giant SAP AG finally succumbed to U.S. economic pressures early this month when it said it would lay off 300 employees, or about 7 percent of its U.S. work force. The company is paring its focus from 21 vertical markets down to 12, while at the same time promising to next year […]

Seeking to counter a barrage of negative news reports, a senior executive with Hewlett-Packard Co. said today the company has no plans to abandon its controversial $25 billion bid to acquire Compaq Computer Corp. “There is no thinking of calling off the merger,” said Webb McKinney, who heads HPs merger acquisition team, in a conference […]

The boisterous niche of enterprise storage management got another jolt forward on Tuesday, with Veritas Software Corp. officials announcing that IBMs Global Services division is now a reseller of their entire product line. The deal will give Veritas customers consulting, implementation, support and maintenance from IBM. The deal, already underway, is just one part of […]

Compaq Computer Corp.s top executive told employees in an internal memo that he remains committed to pursuing the merger with Hewlett-Packard Co., despite the rejection of the deal by HPs largest shareholder last week. In an message sent Friday to workers of the Houston-based computer maker, Compaq Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas argued that the […]

Microsoft Corp. plans a mid-2003 release of the next version of SQL Server, its high-end database, that will focus on making the product work with the companys .Net initiative. But between now and then, Microsoft is slating a minor upgrade to SQL Server 2000 for February. That update will probably bundle SQL Server 2000 with […]

Trying to stir up interest in Oracle9i, Oracle Corp. is promoting the database as a platform for such things as e-mail, voice mail and file serving. But that pitch fell short for some Oracle users at the companys OpenWorld conference in San Francisco last week; they said they werent yet finished implementing 8i. Because of […]

As the initial shock over the events of Sept. 11 has faded, corporate bankers at Wilmington Trust Corp., as at many enterprises, have returned to something like a normal work routine. Travel-averse employees who embraced Web-based meetings and seminars immediately after the disaster are beginning to return to the skies, particularly to attend important meetings […]

The PR blitz to unshackle Baby Bells ratcheted up last week when a free-market think tank, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, sent out a letter signed by eight prominent economists urging Cabinet officials and the president to drop regulations imposed by the Clinton administration. The Tauzin-Dingell legislation would free Baby Bells from selling wholesale services […]

Freightliner Llc has built a heavy-duty business selling auto parts, but the truck makers efforts were not without a full load of IT issues. To support the parts business, the truck and heavy equipment maker had to link its manufacturing facilities, warehouses and 300 service stations into one large extranet, which was costing the company […]