Stories by Paul Krill

Sun evangelist preaches software as services model

Open standards, such as Java and XML, are the driving force of an evolution in computing that focuses on software as services, a Sun Microsystems Inc. official said Wednesday during a keynote speech at the O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java 2001, held here.

iPlanet may bundle app, Web servers with Solaris

iPlanet e-commerce solutions anticipates embedding its Web and application server technologies with the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system and may seek similar deals with Hewlett-Packard and IBM regarding their Unix OSes as well, an iPlanet official said on Tuesday.

Nokia and Others Dive into Bluetooth Waters


At the Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Jose, California, on Tuesday Nokia Corp unveiled its first Bluetooth wireless connectivity offering for linking phones to PCs, but what the company described as limitations in the United States will keep the package unavailable there until approximately late 2001.

IBM Research Envisions Pervasive Computing

An IBM official at the Microprocessor Forum 2000 conference inn San Jose, California Tuesday presented a vision of "pervasive computing" that could entail computerising everything from refrigerators to earrings, and may require application of quantum mechanics and atomic physics to develop the storage and processing technology needed in tiny devices.

Sun eyes dot-com startups

Looking to entice dot-com startups to its software and hardware, Sun Microsystems last Thursday unveiled the iForce Startup Community and an accompanying portal, intended to provide a community of software vendors, integrators, and application service providers (ASPs) that will help dot-coms get up and running.

Service-Based Software Paradigm Touted

An Apple Computer Inc. pioneer now at an open source software company predicted Wednesday that a services-based software paradigm will replace the current practice of buying proprietary software and waiting for upgrades.

BMC, Insuretrust.com Address Hosting Risks

BMC Software Inc. at its Assurance 2000 conference in Las Vegas this week joined with Insuretrust.com LLC on a program to insure ASPs (application service providers) against Internet-related risks.

BMC Joins with Insuretrust.com on ASP Insurance

Looking to enable ASPs (application service providers) to offer greater performance assurances, BMC Software Inc. and Insuretrust.com LLC on Wednesday are unveiling an insurance program for Internet-related damages.

Technologist offers perspective

Technologist and venture capitalist Dr Arno Penzias on Monday held forth on the march of technology, including how it has advanced and where it may be headed, during a keynote speech at the BMC Assurance 2000 conference here.

BMC, Sun partnering on load-balancing package

BMC Software and Sun Microsystems are working on dynamic load-balancing software for Sun's E10000 multiprocessor servers that would automatically shift workloads to other processors or system domains, to maximise performance and reliability.

EMC chief predicts rapid changes for enterprises

EMC CEO Mike Ruettgers, in a keynote speech at the BMC Assurance 2000 conference here on Tuesday, predicted that enterprises, coping with information management in the Internet age, would have to deal with volumes of data previously unheard of and a shortage of IT workers to handle it.

BMC touts Patrol 2000 management package

BMC Software at its Assurance 2000 conference here on Monday heralded its recently announced Patrol 2000 application management system, focusing on e-business and transaction management as well as on the product's reporting capabilities and repository. But attendees raised questions about issues such as upgrading to the product.

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