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    HP ProCurve has made its first acquisition with the purchase of wireless-networking provider Colubris Networks for an undisclosed sum, HP announced on Monday in the UK.

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    Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago.

  • IBM plans new top-end Xeon servers this year

    IBM plans to release its fourth-generation high-end Intel-based server this year, a model geared for use with the quad-core "Tigerton" Xeon processor, and will help software companies better support machines of its ilk.

  • HP to acquire mobile-software firm

    Hewlett-Packard has acquired Bitfone, which makes management software for mobile devices, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Wednesday.

  • Oracle unveils first hardware product

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

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    When rumours of a possible buyout of Mercury Interactive by HP started doing the rounds back in May, I described the prospective deal as "a bit whiffy".

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    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.

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    A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.

  • HP has no respect for EDS

    Hewlett-Packard's contemptuous termination of the 47-year-old EDS brand in a five-paragraph statement filled with marketing hogwash today is a colossal mistake and one the company will live to regret.

  • HPQ job-cuts deeper than estimates: analysts

    US-based IT industry analyst Giga Information Group, believes job losses resulting from the merger of Hewlett Packard and Compaq have been underestimated greatly.

  • Turning a corner with the new Itanium

    The move to Itanium has meant a rocky road for Hewlett-Packard's high-end server group. But the man leading the company's transition to the Intel chip believes the worst potholes are in the rear-view mirror.

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    Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire AppIQ, a provider of storage management technologies, for an undisclosed amount, the companies said last week.

Reviews (110)

  • HP debuts first post-merger products

    Hewlett-Packard has made its first new product introductions since merging with Compaq Computer.

  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium

    The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.

  • Why Itanium's jury is still out

    The lack of applications that can run on Itanium makes gauging the performance of software on the 64bit platform problematic. However, hardware-focused tests are possible.

  • Pocket PC's game plan

    Microsoft's game plan for knocking Palm from the PDA top spot focuses on increasing feature richness and complexity in Pocket PC 2002.

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