eWEEK EDITORS

The Packard family foundations rejection Friday of Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed merger with Compaq Computer Corp. doesnt necessarily kill the deal, but HP executives are going to have to find a way to make it more palatable to their shareholders, according to analysts. One way may be to restructure their agreement with Compaq to make the […]

The remedies proposed Friday by the nine states still fighting the Microsoft case represent the first middle ground between a wrist slap and the breakup. They are the first realistic proposals to attack the Microsoft monopoly and potentially foster new competition. When the case was being tried by Judge Thomas Penfield-Jackson, the toughest question was, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. appears in serious jeopardy of collapsing after HPs largest shareholder, the Packard family foundation, announced late Friday that it will join Hewlett family heirs in voting against the controversial $25 billion merger. The 12-member board of the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, which controls about 10 percent […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s planned buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. reached a critical juncture on Friday as the companys largest shareholder, the Packard family foundation, began deliberating whether to support the controversial deal. The 12-member board of the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, which controls about 10 percent of HPs shares, gathered today in Palo Alto, Calif., […]

When George Samenuk took over in January as CEO of security giant Network Associates Inc., the Santa Clara, Calif., company was at a crossroads. NAI had reported a loss of more than $147 million in the previous quarter and was buffeted by accusations that it had forced inventory on its channel partners in order to […]

Fueling optimism that the PC industry may finally be seeing signs of a recovery, the worlds top two PC chipmakers on Thursday raised revenue projections for the current quarter, citing stronger-than-expected processor sales in recent weeks. Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., in separate mid-quarter updates, said that growing demand for the companies respective […]

Compaq Computer Corp. on Wednesday announced plans to expand its software and hardware offerings as part of its vision to build an “adaptive infrastructure” that will enable businesses to rapidly deploy and more closely manage servers installed at remote locations. The new software tools will debut early next year with Compaqs release of its previously […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Banging the same drum that has been beat over the first two days at Oracle OpenWorld here, Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison continued to tout the application clustering capabilities in the companys 9i Database during his keynote speech on Tuesday. Ellisons wide-ranging, hour-long speech—and a meeting with reporters aftwards—touched upon other subjects […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Administrators of Oracle Corp. software could find their lives getting a bit easier in the next six months, as the software giant readies additional clustering and platform support. The Redwood City, Calif., based Oracle announced the development work here on Monday at its OpenWorld conference. Specifically, the database and applications vendor announced […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The back-to-back speeches at Oracle Corp.s OpenWorld event here Tuesday were given by Michael Ruettgers, chairman of storage titan EMC Corp., and by Marc Andreessen, chairman and co-founder of Loudcloud Corp., and the original developer of the graphical Web browser in the early 1990s. Not surprisingly, the former spoke of the present, […]