Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard Co., fresh from reports that it regained the spot as the top PC seller last year, retained its position as the No. 1 seller of servers globally, according to preliminary numbers released late last month by Gartner Dataquest. That came even though the number of servers the Palo Alto, Calif., company sold dropped by […]

Electronic payment company NYCE Corp., citing increasing membership and demand for real-time information, is migrating its InfoManager workstation application from Hewlett-Packard Co.s ProLiant servers to Stratus Technologies Inc.s ftServer platform. The browser-based application is used by NYCEs network of 2,200 financial institutions, retailers and ATM operators to get immediate access to data such as transaction […]

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will release its long-awaited Opteron 64-bit processor at an event April 22 in New York City. The introduction of Opteron will follow the rollout of the Sunnyvale, Calif., companys Athlon XP 3000+ on Feb. 10, the company said on Friday. The Athlon 3200+ will be introduced in the middle […]

The ongoing legal dispute between memory chip maker Rambus Inc. and Infineon Technologies A.G. took another turn this week when a U.S. appellate court tossed out fraud charges against Rambus and set aside a verdict of fraud from last year against the company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal District ruled Wednesday that […]

Dell Computer Corp. is looking to expand its kiosk program into larger retail stores. The company, which has opened up 57 kiosks in malls across the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, is running a trial at 10 Austin, Texas-area Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores to see if the kiosks can be as successful in […]

Gateway Inc. continued the realignment of its executive team this week, naming four people to general manager positions within the company. John Engel, a former executive vice president at PerkinElmer Inc.—a technology company in the life sciences space—and Scott Weinbrandt, a longtime executive with Dell Computer Corp., were named general managers of Gateways desktop PCs […]

PC maker Gateway Inc., hobbled by a disappointing holiday season, lost $72 million during the fourth quarter. The loss came on $1.06 billion in revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2002. The quarter contrasted sharply from the same period last year, when the Poway, Calif., company posted its first profitable quarter in more than […]

Wyse technology inc. is taking its thin-client technology mobile. The San Jose, Calif., company, which is the largest vendor of thin clients, last week unveiled the Winterm 3820TX, a tablet thin client that combines the mobility of a Tablet PC with greater security and lower cost. Wyse also launched Expedian, server optimization software that officials […]

Some large enterprises are putting broad Linux deployments on hold until the next version of the kernel, 2.6, is released with improved clustering and scalability. But thats not stopping top-tier vendors from rolling out new products to ease deployments. While some IT managers welcomed news of Linux deployment developments from IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and The […]

Stratus Technologies Inc., which already sold EMC Corp.s Clariion CX400 and CX600 storage systems with its ftServer family of servers, will now sell the storage companys latest product, the CX200. Software developed by Stratus, of Maynard, Mass., allows its fault-tolerant servers to interoperate with EMCs Clariion systems, according to Stratus spokesman Ken Donoghue. Donoghue said […]

The number of servers sold worldwide in 2002 jumped 4.2 percent from the previous year, but revenue stayed fairly even, according to preliminary numbers released Friday by Gartner Dataquest Inc. In addition, Hewlett-Packard Co.—during its merger with Compaq Computer Corp.—sold the most units both in the United States and globally, though Dell Computer Corp. continued […]

Intel Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. will jointly develop a series of high-end servers that will be powered by Intel chips and run on Linux. The two companies made their announcement late Thursday during an event in Tokyo. The goal is to start rolling out 32-bit systems powered by Intels Xeon processors by the end of […]