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IBM upgrades mainframe OS
News Z/OS, along with Linux, are the two major software initiatives designed to restore the mainframe's relevance in an age when Unix servers from companies such as Sun Microsystems have stolen most of the high-end server momentum.
[March 26, 2001, 9:07]
Sun looks for Java pay-off
News Some view the early handling of Java as a serious strategic misstep that continues to hamper Sun today because its rivals have consistently built on their initial advantage, leaving the company to play catch-up whenever a new software market comes...
[March 25, 2002, 13:57]
Java: Not just for the server anymore?
News Of those developers using Java, nearly 60 percent are using Sun-specific JVM implementations (31.2 percent J2ME and 28 percent J2SE), with an additional 22.6 percent favoring IBM's Visual Age Micro Edition.
[September 15, 2002, 20:02]
Steve Malone: "IT's Like This..."
News You have heard that Netscape is conspiring with the likes of IBM and Sun to add a disc operating system to the Navigator browser and outflank Windows in the emerging Internet age. Such restrictions on IBM followed similar anti-trust hearings in the...
[January 22, 1999, 10:58]
Portal software beats spending trend
News It's the age-old quest for one piece of software (to bring) everything together to keep everyone happy," said Simon Hayward, research director at Gartner. Sun last week announced plans for a new Sun One Portal Server that will run on top of BEA and...
[June 12, 2002, 11:57]
Predictable McNealy sings same song - slamming MS
News During the keynote, McNealy, clad in a black Java T-shirt and accompanied by his toddler-age son, presented "case studies" of Compaq Computer Corp.and IBM, each of which had "partnered" with Microsoft and Intel Corp.only to find themselves in a...
[June 18, 1999, 9:07]
Software makers go portal crazy
News Last week, the company advanced its Application Framework for eBusiness strategy, announcing plans to bolster its Visual Age For Java and WebSphere tools. While IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, among others, continue to rely on Java as the glue to...
[September 28, 1999, 11:06]
Intel inside e-business
News The challenge is how to develop this business in the Internet age. Itanium, under development for more than five years, is aimed at the market for the powerful servers that handle large databases, bringing it into head-on competition with the...
[December 6, 2000, 9:24]
SuSE expects break-even second quarter
News SuSE was an early ally in IBM's vocal effort to bring the new-age Linux operating system to IBM's old-guard mainframe servers. IBM Global Services is becoming more and more our primary partner," Jelinski said.
[February 5, 2002, 15:42]
Amazon.com: the Web services trailblazer
News This is really the start of the 'information age'. People have been talking about the 'information age' for the last 30 years but now we can see it was simply the 'data age'. Amazon.com also claims not to fall into either of the two major Web...
[March 12, 2003, 15:43]
Big names in the frame to replace Fiorina
News With Paul Otellini slated to become the next CEO, Maloney won't have a shot at the top spot at Intel for about five years, when age will require Otellini to step down. John Joyce: Joyce is head of IBM's Global Services Division -- and HP views...
[February 10, 2005, 16:20]
Itanium 2 on the way, but will it sell?
News But analysts and others are asking whether it will thrive in the current economic ice age. Servers containing the chip will cost less and outperform similar RISC/Unix servers from Sun Microsystems or IBM, allowing Intel to participate in a...
[July 8, 2002, 13:36]
Back rub, anyone? Big Blue loosens up
News And, although its Visual Age tool suite had a loyal following, IBM wasn't fostering a sense of community among developers anything like that achieved by Microsoft. IBM believes that developers want more than cheap beer and lousy pizza.
[June 27, 2000, 7:04]
Where does the Sun-IBM deal failure leave Sun?
Blog But in this day and age, exactly how much money does one already super-rich individual truly need? So Sun Microsystems turned down IBM’s offer of acquisition - even though Big Blue’s $7 billion buy-out bid was twice the valuation of the troubled...
[April 9, 2009, 13:58]
IBM's PC sale will see fireworks
Leader Despite its best efforts throughout the 80s and 90s to shape an adolescent PC business that would grow up to make lots of money and keep the parent company comfortable in its old age, IBM just never managed to control its offspring.
[December 8, 2004, 12:15]
IBM names Palmisano as new chief executive
News There is no rule or age limit that requires me to do this now. In servers, IBM has been able to distance itself from competitors, most notably Sun Microsystems, through aggressive programs to incorporate its mainframe technologies into more cost...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
Sun returns to its server roots
News Our lead message is about participation, and we can help people participate in a new network age," said Avis. Michael Avis, marketing and strategy director at Sun, admitted the vendor got things wrong in the past and now faces a tough fight to keep...
[September 16, 2005, 17:45]
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source
News When a Fortress program performs a "for" loop — a repeated task such as examining every pixel in a photograph or finding how many people in a list are above age 21 — Fortress automatically breaks the job into pieces and farms each piece out to...
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Phoenix launches first 'trusted' BIOS
News This requires an advanced foundation for implementing an extensible and flexible architecture designed specifically for the age of networked computing. Ultimately, Phoenix wants to create a world of PCs and devices capable of interacting at a sub...
[November 26, 2003, 15:35]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News On Tuesday, researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of California at Santa Cruz will discuss human clinical trials of a silicon retinal prosthesis for patients suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa and age-related...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
