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China unveils mammoth grid project
News The Ministry of Education in China hopes to foster tighter collaboration within academia by using grid technology, with help from IBM.
HP sees opening in software on the Net
News Company known for hardware plans to put more stress on software and services for growth--especially applications delivered online.
Tags: Business applications, Web services
PC vendors play wait-and-see with Starter Edition
News HP and Dell are shying away from Microsoft's Windows XP Starter Edition--at least for now.
Tags: Windows XP
HP expands open-source support
News The company will certify and support mySQL database software and the JBoss application server on its hardware.
IBM profit tops US$3 billion
News Strong fourth-quarter sends net income to its highest level ever--and the outlook's good, Big Blue says.
Tags: Hardware
IBM floats Blue Cloud computing plan
News Big Blue unveils new project and forms a research team to focus on making it easier to run large-scale applications with massive databases over the Internet.
Tags: Hardware, grid computing, Database management, Data centers
IBM offers 'green' certificates to data center power misers
News IBM is launching an initiative to give its corporate customers a way to measure and potentially monetize energy-efficiency measures in their data centers using an emerging form of currency.
Tags: Data centers
IBM seeks copyright judgment against SCO
News In a new filing in the Linux legal spat, IBM asks for an order absolving it of any violations of SCO copyrights.
IBM tops earnings targets
News IBM on Thursday beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter on the strength of strong services revenue.
SCO claim reaches US$5 billion
News The SCO Group tacks on another US$2 billion to its claim against IBM and adds new copyright allegations in an amendment to the Unix and Linux suit.
Ex-Sun exec to launch new company
News Marco Boerries, who developed Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, is set to unveil his new venture at CeBit.
IBM to target aging boomers
News Eyeing the growing number of graying PC users, IBM has launched a campaign to re-use technology it developed for the disabled to target the aging.
SCO seeks to dismiss Red Hat suit
News Controversial software seller The SCO Group fired back against Linux leader Red Hat on Monday, filing a motion to dismiss the Linux company's suit against SCO.
IBM software boosts info on demand
News Web 2.0 server client to help customers access digital information, which in 2010 is expected to double every 11 hours.
Tags: Web servers
Don't stop using Linux: Japan gov't
News The Japanese government has acted to reassure companies jittery about the use of the Linux operating system in their products, saying that avoiding the platform would "hurt the lives of the people".
