At its SunNetwork user conference in Berlin next month, Sun Microsystems plans to announce the first independent software vendors (ISVs) that have signed up to distribute their software along with Sun's Java Enterprise System middleware and Java Desktop System software.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Monday announced a bumper crop of new servers in its Integrity and ProLiant ranges aimed at a variety of markets, from the high-performance technical computing market to its traditional enterprise computing customers.
Hewlett-Packard will stop selling its e3000 midrange server on Friday, the company has confirmed.
Hitachi Data Systems Corp. this week announced partnerships with Ixos Software AG and AppIQ Inc. designed to improve Hitachi's content and storage management software offerings.
The legal war between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp. took another step forward Friday, with the Utah-based software company asserting that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GPL (GNU General Public License) software license that governs the Linux operating system.
The Macintosh may not be an established player is scientific computing, but Apple Computer is beginning to get some respect as a player in the space, company vice-president of software technology, Guy "Bud" Tribble, said at the Biosilico 2003 conference at Stanford University.
IBM Cisco in December will begin shipping a new SAN (storage area network) module for Cisco's MDS 9000 family of switches based on the software from IBM's SAN Volume Controller storage appliance.
Sun Microsystems is in negotiations with Fujitsu to transfer the production of its high-end servers and microprocessors to the Japanese company, according to a report in Thursday morning's edition of the Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Linux users outside of the Fortune 1000 cannot buy the software license The SCO Group has been offering since August as a way to protect themselves against legal action, the company confirmed Tuesday.
IBM on Tuesday will announce a number of enhancements to its Shark Enterprise Storage System (ESS) Model 800 arrays designed to increase the performance and ease of management of the storage systems.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday offered a processor bump for its Sun Fire V480 server family. The company is now shipping its new 1.2GHz UltraSparc III processor in the high end four-way V480 model, Sun said.
IBM will ship a new version of its pSeries 615 server next Friday that includes not only a faster microprocessor, but also a financial incentive to purchase the system with Linux rather than IBM's AIX operating system.
The SCO Group Inc. has decided to give Linux users another two weeks before doubling the license fees it is demanding for its Intellectual Property License for Linux, and has backed off on earlier plans to begin sending invoices to commercial Linux users this month.
On Monday, the Chinese Ministry of Education, in conjunction with a dozen universities, went live with a grid computing project that is expected to eventually connect as many as 200,000 students in 100 universities across the country.
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. plan to reveal details about their new dual-core Sparc-based processors at the Microprocessor Forum conference in San Jose, California, this week.