A senior IBM executive has ruled out the technology heavyweight riding to the rescue of embattled applications software company PeopleSoft as it fights a US$7.3 billion hostile acquisition bid by Oracle.
IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog for 215m (AU$353.5m), IBM said on Monday in Europe.
IBM has been indefinitely barred from entering into new contracts with the US federal government.
Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix.
Now that Office Open XML (OOXML) has been certified as an ISO standard, there is a possibility that the vote leading to that result will be challenged. It seems Microsoft is already counting on it.
Security software vendors may soon side with US government authorities and intentionally fail to report "certain spyware" to customers if ordered by a court to remain quiet, according to a survey of leading firms.
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What happens when two storage specialists get an opportunity to joust? Mark Latchford of IBM and Steve Redman from EMC go head-to-head.
Big Blue's sale of its PC business is no rash act, says News.com's Charles Cooper. It fits the plan Sam Palmisano began years ago.
SAP is the first vendor to tie multiple components together by common metadata with NetWeaver, which Meta Group believes will increasingly be adopted for broad technical architecture usage.
IBM has developed what it says is the world's tiniest working transistor.
Big Blue plans to boost artificial intelligence by unifying the different schools of thought.
Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
Just as a falling apple spurred Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity, toppling dominoes have inspired researchers to build the world's smallest computer circuits.
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
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