Storage vendor Legato
Systems has announced that chief vacancies at the company have been
filled. David Wright will take on the dual role of President and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) and Andrew Brown will crunch the numbers as Chief Financial
Officer (CFO).
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/04/2000
IBM today announced
IBM e-Server, a new line of servers featuring mainframe-class reliability and
scalability, support of open standards for application development, and capacity
on demand for managing e-business.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/03/2000
If you can’t beat them, hope your competitor makes a
multi-million dollar investment to keep you in business. Yesterday the
financially ailing Corel received a
$135 million investment from Microsoft, joining Apple as a Microsoft competitor bailed out by
the software giant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/03/2000
Oracle says it can make your
Microsoft- or IBM-powered Web site run three times faster than it currently does, and
it's willing to put its money where its mouth is- <i>lots</i> of its
money.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/03/2000
The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce
Act, the legislation allowing the use of “e-signatures” in transactions, took
effect yesterday. The Act gives certain encrypted certificates the same legal
authority as written signatures.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/02/2000
Today at its Oracle Open World conference Oracle Corp. released the second version of its Internet Application Server (iAS) – recently renamed Oracle 9i Application Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/02/2000
Paul Allen, who founded the software dynasty known as Microsoft with
his friend Bill Gates 25 years ago, will resign from corporation's board of
directors at its annual meeting on November 9.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2000
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal judge who ordered
the division of Microsoft in his response to antitrust allegations
brought by the U.S. Justice Department, said on Thursday he believes that
virtually everything he did in regard to the trial may be vulnerable to appeal,
according to reports published Friday in the <i>Washington Post</i>.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2000
Compaq's board of directors voted unanimously
to name current Compaq president and CEO Michael Capellas as chairman of the
board. Capellas replaces Benjamin Rosen, who retired from the board after 18
years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2000
September 29, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2000
$4 billion to be poured into initiative during next fiscal year, says report.
If announcing $350 million charges against profits promised
to have similar impacts on its stock position, Microsoft would probably
look forward to more charges.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/28/2000
At the launch of Microsoft's Enterprise Server 2000, the
company announced an addition to the .NET server family, the Microsoft Mobile
Information 2001 Server. Previously code-named Airstream, the Microsoft Mobile
Information Server is a scalable mobile applications server that will provide
enterprise customers and mobile network operators with a rich platform for
providing real-time mobile data services to any wireless device.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
And ISVs complained the Windows 2000 Professional logo certification process for applications was hard. Lionbridge Technologies Inc. this week began certification testing at its Los Angeles VeriTest lab this week of applications for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the final member of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
Stratus Computer Systems has announced that fault-tolerant four-processor
Stratus ftServer 6500, which supports Windows 2000 Datacenter Server as well as
2000 Server and Advanced Server, will be shipped in February, 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
September 27, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
A day after Microsoft Corp. president and CEO Steve Ballmer confidently talked of snaring part of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s enterprise server market share, Sun demonstrated that its technology will remain a swiftly moving target.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/26/2000