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Linux takes to the sky
News Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at its Seoul headquarters. Winnebago Industries reduced its software licensing costs for email by 70...
[July 24, 2001, 12:28]
IBM to bring out budget UNIX servers
News IBM has released two new inexpensive Power5-based Unix servers, models that IBM positions against Unix machines from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, but which also compete directly with systems using x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon.
[October 5, 2004, 9:25]
IBM, BEA in server-software dead heat
News IBM has caught up to BEA Systems in the lucrative market for a key piece of e-business software, a new study shows. IBM saw its market share grow from 31 percent in 2000 to 34 percent last year, while BEA's shares dipped from 36 percent to 34...
[March 22, 2002, 6:31]
HP, IBM do storage deal
News Meanwhile, IBM's storage software will be able to manage HP's systems from its StorageWorks line. Interoperability is one of the biggest concerns of storage customers who increasingly are trying to work with products from a variety of companies...
[August 21, 2002, 9:05]
IBM and EMC team on iSeries storage
News The five-year agreement will help customers to deploy combinations of EMC storage and iSeries systems, which EMC says will "enable compatibility between the IBM i5/OS operating system and the EMC IBM will provide technical specifications and new...
[March 23, 2006, 12:35]
Java allies ape Microsoft's methods
News The leading Java adherents -- Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and Oracle -- have ratcheted up efforts to attract software developers through a tried-and-true Microsoft strategy: offering easy-to-use tools to drive adoption of more expensive...
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News In IBM's view, autonomic computing systems must follow four principles. In the 1990s, approximately 80 percent of the cost of major computer systems revolved around hardware and software acquisitions, according to IBM studies.
[April 12, 2002, 11:24]
IBM makes declaration of independence for chips, software
News By building hardware and software that allows computers to act more independently, IBM Research believes it can create systems that offer higher overall performance and cost less to operate, in part because they would be easier to administer.
[March 8, 2001, 9:26]
'Affordable' mainframe on offer for £56,000
News The company is aiming to capitalise on the growing demand for secure systems in markets like healthcare, and is trumpeting the reputation of IBM mainframes as "the world's most secure commercially available mainframe computers".
[April 28, 2006, 15:30]
Big Blue retreads its mainframes
News As other PC server makers race to position their new systems as the best commerce platforms, IBM is attempting to capitalise on its mainframes' wealth and depth of features to position System/390 as the commerce platform of record.
[August 24, 1999, 9:22]
Unix servers breaking out all over
News The Unix server floodgates are opening this week, with Compaq and SGI showing off new systems at the same time that powerhouses IBM and Sun Microsystems release new machines. But Compaq and SGI haven't achieved the market success of competing Unix...
[April 9, 2002, 12:03]
Bull, Motorola follow IBM's PowerPC NT exit
News "The decision is a common decision with IBM and Motorola, not a pure IBM announcement," said Didier Breton, vice-president for open systems at Bull Enterprise Information Systems. We will focus our strategy on AIX, and our NT strategy on Intel.
[December 16, 1996, 15:49]
IBM challenges Microsoft's Office
News While Microsoft's market-leading Office bundle works only on Windows and Apple Computer's Macintosh operating systems, IBM's new software is designed to be accessed through a Web server, meaning its accessible from systems running Windows and...
[May 10, 2004, 8:40]
IBM and Compaq team on storage networking
News Compaq has agreed to sell IBM's Shark Enterprise Storage Servers and select Tivoli systems management software, while IBM will sell Compaq's StorageWorks Modular Array storage systems and software an will support Compaq's VersaStor technology for...
[July 6, 2000, 15:02]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News HP had the most systems on the list, 165 to IBM's 159 -- not much change from the 159-156 gap in June. Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers announced on Sunday, three machines are new, one is upgraded, and two are...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
How IBM plans to change the chip world
News Products like Power4 will have much more of an influence on you as a consumer than having a desktop running at 1GHz," said Dr Joel Tendler, a senior technology architect with IBM's Enterprise Systems Group.
[March 15, 2000, 14:19]
Big Blue picks Linux for clusters
News The systems run Red Hat's version of Linux but also use IBM software that lets the systems share the same file system, software IBM originally developed to manage large numbers of its pSeries Unix servers that run IBM's AIX version of Unix.
[November 14, 2001, 12:07]
IBM dives into 'smart grid for water'
News IBM is developing a portfolio of IT-related water management technologies, a business that it estimates can total $20bn (£12bn) within five years. At a water conference next week, IBM and Intel will be forming a working group to study how...
[September 8, 2009, 8:56]
IBM accused of lifting privacy language
News Software company Zero-Knowledge Systems has filed a copyright infringement complaint against IBM, alleging it wrongfully reproduced its privacy-language specification. According to the company, Synomos worked with computer giant IBM from June 2001...
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Deploying Oracle ASM With Oracle 10g RAC on AIX With IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS6000 Advanced Features
White Papers The IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS6000 Disk Storage systems are both high performance storage systems that offer expandable data open storage and data protective systems to correspond with specific business requirements.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
