Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 17 at 3:14 pm PT
Yesterday’s document dump by Oracle shines a light on just how profitable the HP’s Itanium business is. Or rather, was.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 11 at 11:50 am PT
What’s the biggest expense in owning a server? All the labor that goes into setting it up and running it over time. IBM’s latest system aims to cut those costs by as much as one-third.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 31 at 7:00 am PT
But in HP’s view, Oracle sought to blow up its rival’s Business Critical Server business and lure customers to its Sun servers.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 1, 2011 at 6:23 am PT
Did Oracle agree to support the Itanium chip as part of a deal it reached with HP last year, or not?
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Stephen Miller, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Dennis Ritchie invented C, the computer-programming language that underlies Microsoft Windows, the Unix operating system and much of the other software running on computers around the world.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 3:53 pm PT
On the day of the premiere of a Bloomberg TV documentary that promises to burnish his legend, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison also got to brag that Oracle had retaken the current land speed record in database computing from IBM. Of course he used the opportunity to engage in his favorite new hobby: Taunting Hewlett-Packard.
John Paczkowski in News on September 28, 2010 at 8:45 am PT
You wouldn’t know it from Research in Motion’s share price today–down 3.35 percent at $46.74–but analysts were generally impressed with the PlayBook, the “professional tablet” the company announced at its developer conference Monday.
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Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
International Business Machines Corp. will roll out its new mainframe computers on Thursday, upgrading a key product line at a time when the technology giant is under pressure to show faster sales growth.
The death of the mainframe has been predicted for years, as companies opted to handle their heavy computing needs with strings of cheaper servers rather than pay a million dollars for one massive box.
John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT
SCO really gives new meaning to “never say die,” doesn’t it? Predictably, the company is appealing the recent judgment against it in its legal battle with Novell over key Unix copyrights.
John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am PT
SCO’s long-running campaign against Linux may have finally been dealt a death blow. Late Thursday, the judge presiding over the company’s legal battle with Novell rejected its request for a new trial and upheld an April jury decision that determined Novell, not SCO, to be the rightful owner of key Unix copyrights.
