Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is optimistic enough about its future that the company is planning to break ground on a major new processor manufacturing facility by the end of 2003, company executives revealed Thursday at an analyst conference held at AMD's headquarters.
Mobile computing has some growing up to do if it is to have serious enterprise appeal. That was the consensus at an Intel event aimed at fostering discussion about how best to address the nascent enterprise mobile computing market.
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 will stop selling its e3000 midrange server on Friday, the company has confirmed.
Hitachi Data Systems has announced partnerships with Ixos Software AG and AppIQ designed to improve its content and storage management software offerings.
The legal war between The SCO Group and IBM has taken another step forward. The Utah-based software company has asserted that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GNU General Public License (GPL) 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.
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.
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.
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 saw its first-quarter fiscal 2004 revenues decline 8 per cent to $US2.5 billion, the computer maker has announced. Revenue dropped from the $US2.7 billion Sun reported in its year-ago quarter.
After 30 years of asking software developers to port their applications to different hardware platforms, the industry should acknowledge that it is now easier to change hardware designs than software, said Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Chief Technology Officer Fred Weber during a keynote at Microprocessor forum in San Jose, California.
Brazil has become the latest country to show its support for Linux. Following moves by the UK and Russia, the government of Brazil has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with IBM pledging to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the Latin American country.
Sun Microsystems has announced that it has applied a $US1.051 billion non-cash charge to the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2003, which ended June 30.
Silicon Graphics is the latest technology company to be dragged into The SCO Group's dispute over the Linux operating system.
