Australia will see IBM attacking the server stronghold of Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard later this month, using the aggressive pricing strategy that proved effective against Sun Microsystems.
Sun Microsystems Australia has kicked off its first quarterly product release with 40 percent price reductions and the first example of its much-hyped N1 strategy, in an attempt to stay competitive in a depressed spending market.
Michael Dell is back in charge of the company he founded after a terrible year for the PC maker.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday in the US plans to launch the second phase of its x86 server line, three higher-end models that show the company's commitment to and ambitions for the market.
IBM bolstered its first-place ranking in a worldwide server market that shrank three percent in the most recent quarter, according to new research.
The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lacklustre in its support for the software.
The growing influence of the Linux operating system and the open-source software movement will be on display as several large companies announce products and plans at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
Hewlett-Packard executives are mulling plans to improve over the next 18 months the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, while it continues with commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies.
Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.
Oracle hopes to take advantage of Australian IT professional's interest in Linux, with the release of a new version of its 9I database, which can be run across multiple Linux servers in a configuration known as clustering.
The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lacklustre in its support for the software.
IBM is taking the long view for Intel-based servers.
Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology.
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