IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction.
A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year contract worth 7 million euro (US$8.6 million) to improve Linux security.
IBM's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in Big Blue's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends.
Sun Microsystems plans to announce Tuesday that its Java Enterprise System, a collection of server software, will be available on two rivals' operating systems in the first quarter of 2005.
IBM plans to announce on Tuesday a thin blade server that uses its own Power processors, but a delay means the system won't ship until March--just ahead of a counterattack by Hewlett-Packard.
Dell has expanded its work with leading Linux seller Red Hat, but its relations with No. 2 SuSE are warming.
IBM plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor, a senior Big Blue executive has confirmed.
Bill Zeitler has to roll up his sleeves and fix Big Blue's server product strategy -- in a hurry.
Linus Torvalds has released the last update to the current Linux development kernel, and says he will now turn his attention to the next version of the operating system core.
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