Cisco drops lawsuit against Huawei
Cisco Systems Wednesday formally ended an intellectual property fight against China's Huawei Technologies and its subsidiaries.
Cisco Systems Wednesday formally ended an intellectual property fight against China's Huawei Technologies and its subsidiaries.
Cisco Systems announced changes to its technology leadership team Tuesday, including the appointment of Charles Giancarlo to the position of chief technology officer, a position that had been vacant since 2000.
HP has unveiled its management software product road map for dozens of products through 2005, describing software to manage Wi-Fi and voice-over-IP networks as well as a Linux-based management server, among others.
Mario Mazzola, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems and the company's chief development officer, recently spoke with Computerworld about Cisco's pricing and its innovation efforts.
IBM announced Thursday morning that it will buy Candle, a well-known mainframe management software vendor with 3,000 customers worldwide.
When the first 10 gigabit Ethernet standard was released nearly two years ago, sky-high prices of more than US$50,000 per port kept many IT organizations on the sidelines. Though prices have dropped since then, the technology remains expensive, in part because it runs only on fibre-optic cabling.
The SCO Group has begun sending written notices to its 6000 Unix licensees requiring them to certify that they are in full compliance with their Unix source code agreements and aren’t using Unix code in Linux.
3Com has announced its highest-performance LAN switch to date, as it continues to woo large corporate users through a joint venture with Huawei Technologies.
3Com has announced its highest-performance LAN switch to date, as it continues to woo large corporate users through a joint venture with Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies.
Cisco officials offered some hints about future technology directions this week, giving a brief description of Internet Protocol desktop videoconferencing capability coming next year and laying out their interest in providing products for autonomic and utility computing.
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's enterprise storage and management divisions, is one of the architects of the autonomic computing plan that the software vendor announced in March. Muglia spoke with Computerworld US about Microsoft's efforts to sell IT managers on its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) approach.
NetScreen Technologies has announced an agreement to acquire Neoteris, a leader in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private network technology.
Networking vendor 3Com has introduced its first WAN router line. The new products are made by Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, a move that highlights 3Com's increasing reliance on business partners and operations in Southeast Asia for technology development and product manufacturing.
Dell will announce a set of network management tools this week that it plans to offer at no extra cost to users of its PowerConnect line of switches.
Oklahoma Attorney General, W.A., Drew Edmondson has filed criminal fraud charges against WorldCom and six of its former executives, including former CEO and founder, Bernard Ebbers.