Bullet-Proofing NT
The place: Loveland, Colo. The date: Dec. 28, 1999. A freight train believed to be carrying nearly 20,000 gallons of hazardous material has just derailed, putting hundreds of citizens in the vicinity in danger.
The place: Loveland, Colo. The date: Dec. 28, 1999. A freight train believed to be carrying nearly 20,000 gallons of hazardous material has just derailed, putting hundreds of citizens in the vicinity in danger.
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s single operating system strategy - Unix - is continuing to pay off.
Sun Microsystems Inc. and start-up Found.com Inc. joined forces last week in a deal they said would make it easier to integrate Web storefronts with their existing brick-and-mortar counterparts.
Major hardware vendors are rolling out new services to help users deploy Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 2000 operating system.
Compaq Computer Corp. yesterday announced better than expected fourth-quarter 1999 results amidst continuing troubles in its core commercial PC business.
The $500 million fund set up by IBM Corp. this month to finance Internet ventures builds on the company's campaign to push hardware, software and services to Internet startups.
Wall Street remained upbeat about IBM despite the company's sluggish performance in the last two quarters.
Compuware Corp. and Viasoft Inc. last week terminated their proposed merger.
Wireless Markup Language (WML) was designed to describe content and format for presenting data on limited-bandwidth devices such as cellular phones and pagers. In essence, WML, which is based on the content-tagging language XML, provides a tool to make Web pages accessible from handheld, wireless devices.
Penn National Insurance is the first U.S. customer to bet on Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based Unisys Corp.'s new 32-processor Intel Corp. server. The server will run Windows 2000 Data Center Edition, the companies said this week.
IBM's pledge to increase support for Linux should boost corporate confidence in the open-source Unix variant, said analysts and users.
Penn National Insurance is the first U.S. customer to bet on Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys Corp.'s new 32-processor Intel Corp. server. The server will run Windows 2000 Data Center Edition, the companies said last week.
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IBM today announced a major initiative to expand the use and marketing of Linux across its entire range of server hardware.
Users concerned about the long-term viability of the Alpha chip found some reassurance in the $US500 million technology and marketing initiative launched last week to boost the chip's fortunes. But analysts were less upbeat.