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Stories by Robert McMillan

  • CA releases ARCserve Backup 11

    Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday released a new version of its Brightstor ARCserv Backup software designed to speed up backup and restore operations for departmental Microsoft Corp. users.

  • IBM to spin off Eclipse tools project

    The Eclipse project is being spun out from IBM. At its EclipseCon conference in the US next month, the open source consortium plans to announce that it has restructured itself into a nonprofit organization, with a new board of directors and a new governance model designed to encourage other industry players to get involved in the project.

  • Now it’s the mini iPod

    The iPod now has a sibling. Apple Computer’s chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, unveiled a slimmed down companion to its iPod portable music player during a keynote address at Apple’s user conference in San Francisco.

  • PERSPECTIVES: 2003: On the record; off the mark

    Though the IT industry seemed unable to deliver the next killer app in 2003, its executive management produced more than its usual share of comments whose hyperbole, wrongness or general disconnection with reality make them worth repeating. The industry giants that dominated the headlines — Microsoft, Oracle, and of course would-be giant-slayer, The SCO Group — also made an impressive showing in this year’s list of comments that weren’t quite on the mark.

  • Sun to Windows-certify x86 hardware

    In an apparent softening of its antipathy toward Microsoft, Sun Microsystems plans to begin certifying its hardware to run the Windows operating system, a Sun executive said on Thursday.

  • SCO shows IBM the code

    Ten months after launching its lawsuit against IBM, The SCO Group has finally provided Big Blue with a list of files and individual code samples that, it claims, violate its intellectual property rights.

  • Microsoft releases 32-bit Itanium software

    Intel and Microsoft on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processors.

  • Novell to indemnify SuSE customers

    In a move to ease customer concerns about possible legal action from The SCO Group, software vendor Novell will begin indemnifying customers of SuSE Linux AG, the Linux distribution vendor that Novell announced plans to acquire in November.

  • Ellison hands Oracle chairmanship to CFO

    Larry Ellison is handing over his position as chairman of Oracle to the company's chief financial officer, Jeff Henley, Oracle announced Monday in a statement. Ellison will retain his position as chief executive of the company.

  • IBM readies 4-way Xeon blade

    IBM Corp. on Monday announced plans to add a third member to its BladeCenter family of high-density blade servers. The Xeon-based BladeCenter HS40 will be the first 4-way blade system released by the company.

  • Interview: Red Hat founder sees irony in SCO lawsuit

    Though the company he founded has been drawn into a legal dispute between The SCO Group and IBM, former Red Hat Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Young has not had much to say about the SCO dispute. At least, that was the case until Wednesday, when Young published an open letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride criticizing him for his management of SCO and countering McBride's recent claims that the open source community is attacking intellectual property laws in Europe and the U.S.

  • AMD eyes 45-nanometer transistors

    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) researchers on Tuesday revealed details of how their company plans to build processors using the next-generation 45-nanometer process technology that AMD hopes to have in production by as early as 2007.