Jeff Burt

BOSTON—IT managers and developers dont have to worry about interoperability when choosing a Web services platform because the growing number of standards—from XML to SOAP to WSDL—will make sure that applications and systems are able to talk to each other. But there are a lot of other things to consider when choosing a platform, according […]

Jibe Inc. is aiming to use the advantages offered by peer-to-peer technology—including little or no hardware or monthly usage costs—in its new content delivery network software. The Tampa, Fla., company on Monday released EdgeBurst Delivery System 1.0, which officials said will offer significant improvements in performance, scale and cost over more traditional hardware-based cache or […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lost more than $254 million and saw sales decline by 34 percent during the third quarter. The loss for the quarter, ended Sept. 29, was more than $67 million more than the company lost during the same period last year, according to numbers released late Wednesday. The chip maker also said […]

Microsoft Corp. this week will officially launch the newest version of its Web site software, the Content Management Server 2002. Paul Flessner, senior vice president for .Net enterprise servers for Microsoft, will announce the launch of the server during his keynote address Tuesday at the companys MEC 2002 show in Anaheim, Calif. Content Management Server […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. today is making its entrance into the young but increasingly competitive world of mobile workstations with the introduction of the Compaq Evo Mobile Workstation N800w. The workstation, which is being unveiled on the first day of the HP World 2002 Conference and Expo in Los Angeles, is designed to compete with mobile workstations […]

Dell Computer Corp. confirmed on Thursday it plans to enter the printer and PDA markets. The confirmation came during a conference call to discuss its quarterly earnings, which showed that profits and sales increased strongly from a year ago. However, CEO Michael Dell downplayed speculation about the companys printer and PDA plans, contending that the […]

Borland Software Corp. saw its second-quarter revenues increase by 7 percent over a year ago, but its net income dropped $1.7 million. In the quarter ended June 30, the Scotts Valley, Calif., company generated $59.7 million in revenues, up from $56 million in the second quarter of 2001. Net income was $4.7 million, a drop […]

Covalent Wednesday afternoon will announce that its Enterprise Ready Server, or ERS, is now compatible with Microsofts ASP.Net development environment. Covalents server is based on the Apache 2.0 open-source platform. Developers now can create .Net applications and run them on Apache systems, according to Jim Zemlin, vice president of marketing for Covalent. The move addresses […]

Rational Software Corp., which makes software development tools, reported revenues for the first quarter of $152.5 million, a 13 percent drop from the $175.8 million earned during the same period last year. In financial statements released Thursday, the Cupertino, Calif., company also reported a net loss of $6.5 million, or $.03 per share, in the […]

Processors for mobile and lightweight devices are getting faster, but for Intel Corp. customers, theyre also getting more expensive. Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif., last week released its fastest mobile Pentium 4 chip. The 2GHz Pentium 4-M has an initial price of $637 per chip (in 1,000-unit shipments), about 80 percent higher than the previous […]

A Paris company is bringing its software for easing deployment of applications via the Internet to the United States. Esual Software Inc.s products are aimed at businesses trying to make Web sites, e-business applications, intranets and extranets more interactive while alleviating the burden on back-end servers. Key to the companys products are Esual Executables, applications […]

NEW YORK—For Transmeta Corp., its always been about timing. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, which makes small, inexpensive chips for mobile computing devices and high-density servers, has been hammered over the past several quarters after the months-long delay of the release of its Crusoe TM5800 chip. Scheduled to come out in the summer of 2001, […]