Dell and Oracle extended their alliance Tuesday with an exclusive bundling agreement that will have Dell offering Oracle database software with some of its servers.
A slew of major computing companies announced a new partnership on Monday to help speed the development and adoption of software for Itanium-based servers.
Oracle will expand its support for Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based Unix servers, bringing a version of its E-Business Suite to market by the end of the year, the software giant said on Thursday.
PC maker Dell will spend around US$340 million, on a software asset-management company, in a bid to simplify dealings with its customers.
The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
The writing was on the wall for Dell and Itanium once Intel started aiming the processor at large multiprocessor systems.
Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. But what do all the smiles amount to beyond the teaming of two of the industry's biggest players?
Will they or won't they? Dell execs remain elusive on AMD plans, but analysts say circumstances could push the two together.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Storage giant EMC last week unfurled the details behind its deal to work with Samsung to sell systems in the growing Asian market.
The software giant joins the DVD+RW Alliance and plans to take a more active role in developing and promoting the DVD+RW format.
The group behind the DVD+R/+RW specification said dual-layer recordable discs will hit the market next year, allowing storage of up to 16 hours of recorded video.
Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market -- the company has announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with management software to go with it.
Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
One of the two DVD industry groups jockeying over competing standards is trying to give added speed to its spin with a new specification that will cut recording times on DVD+R discs.
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