Linux server shipments soar 166 percent in Q4
Linux server shipments rocketed 166 percent in the fourth quarter in 1999 compared with the same period in 1998, according to a survey from International Data Corp.
Stories by Kathleen Ohlson
Microsoft Stock Takes Wild Ride
Analysts expect Microsoft Corp.'s stock to continue to lag as long as the uncertainty of its antitrust case lasts - and perhaps even after the remedy phase is complete.
SSA Sells Assets, Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Manufacturing software vendor System Software Associates Inc. (SSA) will sell almost all of its assets to a newly formed subsidiary of Gores Technology Group, the companies said in a statement.
Exabyte Blames Y2K for Q1 Woes
Blaming a sales slowdown related to year 2000 issues, Exabyte Corp. today warned it will suffer a larger than expected first-quarter loss.
Storage Rental Market Emerges
First, application service providers roared onto the scene to ease users' software maintenance burdens. Now, service providers are moving into the storage arena, promising to rid users of their storage management headaches.
StorageTek Spins Off Storage Services Unit
Storage Technology Corp. and Great Hill Partners LLC said they have spun off a company whose charter is to offer data storage services such as storage on demand and server backup.
FBI: Computer intrusion cases double
The number of cybercrimes investigated by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation doubled from 1998 to 1999, but the government agency will need more resources to investigate hack attacks, FBI Director Louis Freeh said this week.
Study: EMC Tops Storage Software Market
EMC Corp. is no longer just the top storage hardware vendor; it now rules the storage software roost as well.
IBM Unveils $400M SAN Unit
IBM yesterday said it will spend $400 million on new products, services and testing facilities to help its customers support data from their ever-growing online businesses.
Cisco Taps Into Web Phones
In a move to bring telephones into the Internet age, Cisco Systems yesterday announced 10 new enterprise telephony products.
Big Paper Firms Cut Into B-to-B Space
Paper giants Georgia-Pacific Corp., Weyerhaeuser Co. and International Paper will jointly develop an Internet marketplace connecting them to suppliers, the companies said in a statement.
Spam Bill Passes House Subcommittee
U.S. Congress moved one step closer to slamming advertisers for sending out unsolicited e-mail.
Is FTC Investigating Auto E-commerce Exchange?
A U.S. Federal Trade Commission spokesman this morning said he could neither confirm nor deny reports that the agency has started a preliminary inquiry into a planned online automotive trade exchange that is being developed by Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG.
Storage Utility Market to Reach US$8B by 2003
The boom in Internet data centers will drive the North American storage utility market's growth from a US$10 million industry today to $8 billion by 2003, according to a report released by Dataquest Inc., a San Jose, California-based unit of Gartner Group Inc.
'Melting Worm' slithers into the wild
A new worm now "in the wild" has the potential to shut down Windows platforms and make the operating system permanently unusable.