Hewlett-Packard is supposed to be thisclose
to buying Electronic Data Systems for somewhere in the heady neighborhood of
$12 billion-$13 billion,...
0 replies - 76 views - 05/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
0 replies - 73 views - 04/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM claims to have created new
species of custom-built, industry-standard, Linux-based rack server for Web 2.0
and Cloud Computing companies with massive data...
0 replies - 75 views - 04/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM may be starring down the barrel of an EC investigation
of its precious mainframe business.
The commission has sent Big Blue a questionnaire asking...
0 replies - 65 views - 04/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Turns out IBM has been barred from doing business with the
US government over what was a $84 million modernization contract from the Environment...
0 replies - 496 views - 04/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM had a lousy weekend.
See, last Friday – out of the blue according to its account
– it found out that the Environmental Protection Agency had...
0 replies - 349 views - 03/31/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM has taken a piece of open source database start-up
EnterpriseDB, a relatively odd thing for IBM to do considering its DB2
interests – unless, of course,...
0 replies - 565 views - 03/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM says it’s found a way to make mashups secure enough for
business.
Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren’t
really viable for...
0 replies - 546 views - 03/14/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM is lending at least its ODF-based Lotus Symphony software to
another mission to rid the world of Windows PCs.
According to a Reuters story, IBM is...
0 replies - 449 views - 03/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM, which invented virtualization back in “ye ole mainframe
days,” has waded into the current discussion with entry-level virtualization
for its...
0 replies - 237 views - 01/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Rumors on Wall Street and a speculative article in the
Financial Times have IBM possibly playing Prince Charming to AMD’s Cinderella
and either digging into...
0 replies - 75 views - 01/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The third time, they say, is the charm.
Dell has just taken its third swing at blades, a field on
which it’s struck out before, leaving IBM and HP to...
0 replies - 75 views - 01/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM pre-announced better-than-expected Q4 results this
morning, turning the stock market north at least for the moment.
It said it’ll post a 24% rise...
0 replies - 68 views - 01/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News