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.
Sun Microsystems has booted its Solaris operating system on a server with a prototype of its forthcoming Niagara II processor, one key milestone for the company's attempt to restore the relevance of its Sparc processor family.
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.
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on the second release candidate, or near-final testing version, of Windows .Net Server 2003, sources said.
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.
Since Mac and Windows OSes now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?
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.
Since Mac and Windows OSes now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?
Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology.
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