Lotus Development Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. today made a push to Lotus Domino with an e-mail migration offering delivered by the companies and their channel partners.
Lotus and HP have optimized a preconfigured HP NetServer on Lotus Domino aimed at what Lotus said is a market of 22 million [M] users who are looking at upgrading their messaging systems.
America Online (AOL) announced overnight (Sydney time) that it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth $US4.2 billion.
Gaining Netscape Communications' Web portal, browser and server software could help cement America Online's position on the World Wide Web and boost Sun Microsystems's Java programming language, analysts said yesterday.
AT&T yesterday said it will market the global communications services of British Telecom, its joint-venture partner.
Computer Associates International Inc. today extended its Unicenter TNG Framework management suite to IBM Corp.'s OS/390 server and announced bundling deals with Hitachi Data Systems and Amdahl Corp.
Analysts praised the likely technical fruits of BMC Software Inc.'s plan to buy California toolmaker Boole & Babbage Inc. but said that customers would probably pay more when the companies' products are integrated.
BMC Software yesterday announced plans to buy California toolmaker Boole & Babbage for $US900 million.