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IBM's Non-announcement-announcement
Blog What is wrong with IBM? I say sort of announced because while IBM said it was launching a blade for SMEs, which would have been a neat trick since blade's are complex and expensive, it did not actually tell us anything about this "virtual" blade.
[June 15, 2007, 10:22]
UK Firm Sells Mouse Adapter For Shaky Hands
News After deeming the device non-commercial, IBM licensed it to niche electronics company Montrose Secam, which will now sell it for £65. A small UK company is selling a mouse adapter, developed by IBM, that compensates for shaking hands and could help...
[March 15, 2005, 12:10]
IBM System I5 And Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.10 - Batch Performance With Unicode Vs. Non-Unicode Database
White Papers IBM System i ERP Development team in Rochester, MN tested the performance of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.10 batch jobs on IBM System i5 using 2 different databases: non-Unicode and Unicode. Running one at a time for over 5 hours' elapsed time, they...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
German Railway On Track With Linux Migration
News Deutsche Bahn (DB), which manages the German railway system, is moving from an infrastructure based on IBM Mainframes, and Solaris, Windows and HP Non-Stop servers, to a standardised infrastructure primarily based on the Linux running on Intel...
[November 25, 2004, 13:15]
IBM Asks Court To Say No To SCO Claims
News Indeed, given SCO's repeated failure to comply with the court's orders [to produce evidence], the fact of IBM's non-infringement should simply be established against SCO. SCO seeks to dismiss or stay IBM's claims for a declaration of non...
[May 21, 2004, 8:50]
Overpriced, Non-standard, Market Manipulation Mullarkey
Talkback IBM continued to try and con the public and exploit its dominant position, The PC Junior was just one example of this attempted manipulation, and was the first of many bloody noses, dealt by the market to the smug face of IBM.
[August 16, 2008, 12:25]
Opera Finds Footing In Browser War
News After years of waiting patiently for AOL Time Warner or Microsoft to stumble, Opera Software is trumpeting its relationship with IBM as evidence it's making progress against its massive rivals in the browser market.
[May 16, 2001, 9:25]
PC 300PL: The World's Securest Desktop?
News IBM is targeting four areas of security with the chip, including authenticity, privacy, information integrity and non-repudiation. IBM claims its new PC 300PL desktops, announced Tuesday, are the most secure PCs on the market.
[September 29, 1999, 12:00]
Sun Attacks IBM's Linux Strategy
News Sun has offered IBM the benefit of its "experience" if Big Blue decides it wants to implement a wholesale move to the Linux desktop. In a memo issued on Wednesday, Sun's software executive vice-president Jonathan Schwartz said his company is firmly...
[January 22, 2004, 12:50]
IBM Expands Linux Offering
News Better tools for creating Linux applications on multiple processors will help spur sales of IBM hardware, 40 percent of which is non-Intel servers, according to IBM. IBM wants to expand [application] vendors' horizons to non-x86 platforms.
[February 15, 2005, 8:05]
IBM Gives The ISeries More Power
News While Jarman needs to keep this traditional, conservative market happy with the progress of IBM development, he has the job of persuading non-iSeries customers that now may be the time to consider a move.
[January 31, 2006, 3:00]
IBM Hopes To Use DNA To Build Chips
News There is nothing else out there that we can do that with," said Jennifer Cha, an IBM biochemist working on getting the biological and non-biological molecules to interact. Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble...
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
Sun Exec Accuses Microsoft Of 'patent Terrorism'
News IBM has also introduced "non-assert covenants" across a range of standards the company has been involved with, Eagleton said. IBM] believes that within these standards there are some patents that IBM own, but they're issuing non-assert covenants...
[July 24, 2007, 9:24]
Atlantic Launch Expands IBM's Tools Range
News IBM has expanded its range of Rational development tools with the launch of four new modules aimed at different parts of the development process. These new tools, codenamed "Atlantic", are based on Eclipse 3.0, the open-source development tool...
[October 13, 2004, 10:00]
HP: Everything Will Be On Blades
News With a new blade format and new power and heat saving techniques, Hewlett-Packard has thrown down a challenge to IBM and aims to be "number one on the data centre". In making the announcement on Wednesday, Becker and other HP executives took the...
[June 15, 2006, 12:00]
The Day Ahead: Should IBM Exit The PC Biz?
News In his fireside chat with Wall Street, IBM chief Lou Gerstner said there were few things deemed unthinkable at Big Blue. IBM provides the services, the servers and the middleware. Exiting the PC business could leave IBM with a hole in its lineup...
[May 10, 2000, 12:29]
How To Introduce Linux Into The Enterprise
News With its connection to IBM, Linux has been making significant inroads into the enterprise. Much has changed, Binstock said, because of IBM's involvement with Linux. Today, he said, crucial or mission-critical elements running on Linux include...
[July 9, 2003, 14:33]
Open-source Group Seeks Reversal Of 'junk Patent'
News If Blackboard offered a pledge not to assert its patents, that promise would likely take the form of other non-assertion policies, such as IBM's list of patents it won't assert against open-source groups, Small said.
[December 1, 2006, 7:40]
IBM Ejects Eclipse
News Eclipse, an open-source development tools organisation backed by IBM, plans to transition to an independent foundation by next month, a representative said on Tuesday. IBM started Eclipse in November 2001 with a $40m donation and has contributed...
[January 20, 2004, 15:35]
Stallman: Love Is Not Free
News Companies like Caldera and IBM, on the other hand, argue that it's possible to find a middle ground where proprietary software can work with GPL-based "free" software. Linux is moving slowly but surely into the mainstream, taking over significant...
[July 10, 2001, 13:17]
