CTOs and market analysts took note early this year when American Express Co. announced it had agreed to pay IBM Corp.'s global services division US$4 billion over seven years to take over provisioning and management of the credit card giant's noncore IT operations.
Joe Neuhaus sometimes felt as if he were riding a whirlwind as the CTO of Prime Advantage, a business-to-business ecommerce marketplace provider in a sector experiencing one of the more spectacular flameouts of the tech downturn. The sector has seen ambitious plans to create revolutionary Internet-based buying and selling models instead lead only to bankruptcy for many companies. But Prime Advantage has weathered three rounds of layoffs and is looking for acquisitions to improve its position.
Joe Neuhaus sometimes felt as if he were riding a whirlwind as the CTO of Prime Advantage, a business-to-business ecommerce marketplace provider in a sector experiencing one of the more spectacular flameouts of the tech downturn.
Internet infrastructure management provider Loudcloud Inc. on Monday said it is offering enterprises a menu of options to choose from when deciding which Internet operations they want to outsource.
Bluelight.com LLC may have taken a bumpy ride along with the rest of the online retail industry during the past year, but the company's CTO, Patrick Chan, says that he is unfazed.
Noetix will announce a deal with Siebel Systems on Tuesday to develop its data integration software product to support Siebel's e-business applications.
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday announced its HP Core Services Framework (CSF), a developer platform to further the interoperablity of Java application services. The release is among the first implementations of the Java Services Framework specification.
Jack Messman, soon to take over as CEO of Novell Inc., said Monday that developers and customers will play an important role in moving with the networking software company as it evolves into a services-related provider.
He's led some of the most visionary projects in the development of the Internet, but he's rarely strayed from the business world. Paul Mockapetris helped pioneer the Internet DNS and shepherded some of the most significant work on the advancement of the Net through organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). But he's also kept his head firmly in the workday world, as a co-founder of Internet access service @Home Network, which later merged with Excite Inc.
Although Linux is ever gaining more supporters, its status as a truly open-source operating system is not assured, industry pundit Nicholas Petreley said Wednesday in a keynote address at the NetWorld+Interop 2000 show.
Red Hat Inc.'s Chairman Robert Young said Tuesday that he is unconcerned by Microsoft Corp.'s domination of the proprietary PC operating systems market. Red Hat plans to sell and service the Linux open source OS to the rest of the world, Young said.
Web infrastructure provider Loudcloud Inc. next week will roll out expanded services designed to manage Internet operations for ASPs (application service providers) and other businesses.
Novell on Monday unveiled software that will allow enterprise employees wireless access to messaging, calendaring, tasks, and address books.
IBM Corp. has launched another version of its WorkSpace On Demand server-based client management software package, this time enabling it to support Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Linux clients and servers.
Worldwide semiconductor sales rocketed 35.6 per cent to $15.2 billion in April from $11.2 billion in the same month last year, propelled by a booming market for mobile phones and wireless communications infrastructure, and by continued strength in PC sales, an industry group said last week.