Wednesday - May 7, 2008
IBM plans to launch an initiative that centers on a Linux-based platform and a Web-based marketplace tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. Set for later this year, the rollout will provide users with a range of products and services from independent software vendors. It will also allow them to tap into IBM's computing horsepower. Code-named "Blue Business Platform," the offering consists of a catalog, of sorts, that will allow users to view IBM's ever-growing partner ecosystem in one locale.
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Tuesday - May 6, 2008
Let's talk information-technology upgrades. Figuring out your company's IT system is one of life's great mysteries. It's an even greater source of frustration. However, local Las Vegas experts insist even the layest of laypeople can learn to determine when their systems require improvements, and more importantly, how to prioritize on those upgrades to avoid blowing out the company's budget.
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Friday - May 2, 2008
Two technology industry heavyweight CEOs -- Google's Eric Schmidt and IBM's Sam Palmisano -- took the stage together at IBM's PartnerWorld conference in Los Angeles Thursday to talk up their companies' cloud computing efforts, first publicly introduced last fall, which they say are still going strong.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday brought new how-to guides and services to the community of more than 3,000 developers using its OpenSolaris-based open storage platform. Two how-to recipes aim to help developers build solid storage systems quickly and efficiently, while the new service capabilities are designed to speed open storage application development.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be done.
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Tuesday - April 22, 2008
For the past five years, Finnish-born Marten Mickos has worked in Silicon Valley as CEO of MySQL -- a once-tiny company that started in Sweden and became one of the most popular suppliers of open source database software in the world. MySQL is used by a host of major Web businesses, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon.com.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server makers, announced that it would increase the number of products certified for use with Ubuntu Linux, one of the fastest growing open source operating systems. The upcoming expansion is the latest development in the two-year relationship between Sun and Canonical.
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
Larry Augustin strives for collaboration. Augustin and James Vera launched VA Research in 1993 with the hope of providing a Linux-based operating system for personal computers. After the company bought out its biggest rival -- Linux Hardware Solutions -- the company changed its name to VA Linux Systems and went public.
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Sunday - March 16, 2008
A small Annapolis, Md., startup is using free software developed by scores of online users to build a data storage company that it claims will be secure enough to store sensitive government data like satellite images of terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan. Exponential Storage hopes to one day persuade the National Security Agency and other government bureaus to hire the company for its data storage network.
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Thursday - March 13, 2008
What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET -- remember Steve Ballmer of "Ballmer and Butthead" fam] and Scott McNealy sitting side by side -- I thought they meant it. I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM.
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Thursday - February 21, 2008
Promising hefty productivity increases and a lower TCO, Tibco Software this week announced its beefed-up ActiveMatrix 2.0, which aims to simplify building and managing service-oriented architectures. This latest release adds BusinessWorks, which is available either in standalone mode or as a container hosted in the ActiveMatrix infrastructure.
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