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SCO wants US$699 for Linux server license
News The software maker responds to a new lawsuit by Linux leader Red Hat and reveals steep license prices for businesses that want to use Linux with SCO's blessing.
Does re-branding make sense for CA, HP?
Insight Re-branding is not a silver bullet, but it can give mature products a new lease of life or help turn things around for a company like CA.
Tags: Software
HP combines printer, PC units
News Union of the two groups is designed to help get products to market more quickly, tech giant says.
Tags: Hardware
Dell extends lead in PCs
News The computer maker is pulling further ahead of second-place rival Hewlett-Packard, according to new third-quarter shipment figures.
Tags: Personal Computers
SCO selling Linux licenses online
News The controversial software company quietly begins taking orders from companies that want to use Linux with its blessing. Meanwhile, SCO's main Web site is still offline due to MyDoom attacks.
HP opens college lab in China for media search
News PC maker partners with Beijing's Tsinghua University to develop an application for searching files of video, photos and music.
Tags: Search
Group sees Linux users unfazed by SCO suits
News Linux customers are unlikely to be deterred by legal threats from the SCO Group, even while the outcome of its legal battle with Novell remains undecided, according to the OSDL.
Election worries, HP earnings drag down tech stocks
News Disappointing Hewlett-Packard earnings and tenuous presidential politics combined Monday to send the Nasdaq composite index on a roller-coaster ride that set a new low for the year.
Windows XP to get Bluetooth support
News Microsoft releases to manufacturers an update that would allow PCs running Windows XP to connect to peripherals, handhelds and cell phones without wires.
HP reports profit growth, raises sales forecast
News The computing giant posts revenue of US$20.1 billion in its second quarter--a company record.
Oracle, rival at odds in services battle
News Salesforce.com, an online service started by a former Oracle executive and partly funded by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, has asked Ellison to resign from its board after Oracle started a rival service.
HP: S'porean employee sabotaged Superdome tests
News Hewlett-Packard files a lawsuit alleging that a former employee sabotaged performance tests of its top-end Superdome Unix server, crippling sales of the key product.
New standard to speed chip connections
News A key industry group is aiming to come out with a new specification for a high-speed chip connection technology that could more than triple the bandwidth for data.
IBM, JBoss eye new Java plan
News IBM and open-source Java software company JBoss Group are in discussions to spearhead a Java standardization effort aimed at cooling off the growing popularity of Microsoft's C# language.
IBM bullish on new year
News Big Blue expects a return to growth in the coming year thanks to the company's efforts to realign its business in 2002, say executives at IBM's annual fall analyst meeting.
