IBM Bets On Sun Microsystems Uncertainties To Poach New Customers

IBM has rolled out a new four socket BladeCenter server that comes equiped with AMD's Opteron 6100 processor, codenamed Magny-Cours and launched back in March. Big Blue now joins ranks with Dell, Acer and Hewlett-Packard in...

US IT giant IBM has dropped a lawsuit filed against a former employee Joanne Olsen after she quit the company to join rival firm Oracle in June.In response, Oracle launched a lawsuit of its own in the US District Court in San...

Prove you're a Dev Guru! Take the test now! Linq ('Language Integrated Query') is a Microsoft programming model that adds formal data querying capabilities to .NET-compliant languages. You can project, filter and traverse data in...

IT Services Powerhouse Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company plans to further expand its information technology services by offering a new set of ‘Cloud Design Services’. Industry experts believe that the...

Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with its SPARC server partner, Fujitsu, has come up with a new SPARC server line which employs high speed memory units and a new processor to bolster up the performance speeds by a significant...

Software Freedom Law center, a non-profit software group, has sent a letter to the European Union regulators who are investigating Oracle’s proposal for acquiring Sun Microsystems; it says that the EU’s concerns about...

Within a month after joining the blade server domain with its new Unified Computing System (UCS), the networking giant Cisco Systems on Thursday divulged additional details on its UCS offering for data centres, including pricing...

Dell has launched a number of servers and workstations based on Intel's new Nehalem processor as it plans to make the most of market uncertainty and the current economic conditions. With news that Sun Microsystems might be...

Network equipment giant Cisco Systems has confirmed that it will be releasing servers as the battle in the network segment switches from one to make tidy profits to one of survival as the recession bites hard. According to the...

In a bid to snare significant share in virtualisation market, IBM announced it snapped up Transitive Corp., a Los Gatos, California-based company, which specialises in cross-platform virtualisation technology. IBM said that the...

Nicholas Carr from Roughtype writes that Microsoft will drop a massive bomb during the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas; the big news, it is understood, will be the announcement of 24 new data centres worldwide, each with a...

This year's VMWare European Conference in France was marked by a number of significant announcements which aimed at preparing VMWare for a face-off with Microsoft. The world's biggest software vendor has made Virtualisation a...

Research and Analyst firm Gartner has published the latest Q3 figures over Server related shipments and revenues worldwide. Volume Shipment for Q3 2007 were up by nearly 9 percent compared to Q3 2006 with total revenues...

Microsoft is set to become almost USD 1 bn poorer after they pulled the plug on their long fought battle with the European Commission.   The near decade-long feud is finally over after Microsoft agreed to withdrawn the last...

Today's decision by an EU court to uphold a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft is likely to influence other cases in the software industry. A competition lawyer said he expects the principles of the case to be...