IT services provider Accenture exceeded net revenue and earnings expectations for its 2003 third fiscal quarter, as the company, whose core business is consulting, continued to expand its outsourcing business.
Companies have been cautious about outsourcing business processes to offshore service providers, but spending in this segment of the IT services market will continue growing, albeit moderately, in the coming years, according to Gartner.
Avaya Inc. wants to simplify and enhance the way it interacts with customers and partners. To accomplish that, it has launched a business transformation project to standardize and streamline its core operations globally.
It should be easier now for users to buy and maintain some Hewlett-Packard (HP) servers running SuSE Linux AG's enterprise operating system thanks to an agreement the two vendors announced Thursday.
HP has unveiled new services designed to assist clients with the management and implementation of storage systems.
Hewlett-Packard has created a product division devoted to Linux as the company ups its commitment to products based on this open-source operating system.
The SCO Group Inc. has found what it says is proof that it owns all copyrights related to the Unix operating system, a claim rival Novell Inc. had contested last month and for which SCO may seek to recoup damages.
SuSE Linux AG plans to begin selling in about two weeks its enterprise desktop operating system.
Companies will spend slightly more on IT services in 2003 than last year, an increase prompted in part by the purchasing of outsourcing services that help companies reduce costs and improve their IT infrastructure, according to a Gartner study released Tuesday.
The SCO Group reported a profit in its second fiscal quarter thanks in part to its recently launched initiative to more aggressively collect licensing fees for its Unix operating system software, the company said Wednesday.
Novell is taking The SCO Group to task over SCO's legal claims over Unix and against Linux software.
Marconi, a London-based provider of telecommunications equipment and services, has decided to outsource a variety of IT tasks to Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC).
Although the merits of The SCO Group's legal claims against Linux are questionable, companies using Linux shouldn't take the matter lightly, according to Gartner.
Project Mono, an effort to create an open source version of the Microsoft Corp. .Net Framework, expects to release version 1.0 of its software this year, probably in the fourth quarter.
In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group announced Monday it has shook hands on a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. over SCO's Unix operating system.