Recently added articles from Computergram International:
IBM Plays Against Microsoft's Applications Slide.
Jul 21, 2004 ... Microsoft Corp's slide into business applications is irresistible, and it is unnerving ISV partners who are turning to alternative platform providers including IBM Corp. That's according to Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM's ISV and developer ...
Sun Profits in Q4 Thanks to Microsoft Settlement.(quarter 4)
Jul 21, 2004 ... By Timothy Prickett Morgan When Sun Microsystems Inc said at the beginning of the year that it wanted to be profitable by the end of fiscal 2004, no one could have predicted the way in which it happened. Sun did indeed report a profit of $795m for the fourth quarter after ...
Virgin Mobile Cuts Price of IPO.(initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Sir Richard Branson has been forced to trim 15% off the flotation price of Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) Plc, after institutional investors rejected the original pricing as too high. Branson has built a massive business empire spanning airlines through to music shops. He had been ...
Lindows/Linspire Inches Closer to IPO.(initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Desktop Linux vendor Lindows Inc is inching closer to its proposed initial public offering but is now expecting to raise between $39.6m and $48.4m, rather than the $57.5m it originally expected. The San Diego, California-based company has confirmed that it is set to change its ...
UML Father Peeks Into Development Future.(unified modeling language)(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Software will become pervasive during the next 30 years, and development of applications will evolve accordingly, according to one leading industry thinker. IBM fellow Grady Booch yesterday predicted that IT systems will grow bigger as people come to rely on software in their ...
Motorola Q2 Hit by Tax Charge.(quarter 2)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Motorola Inc paid the price yesterday for offloading its semiconductor business, when a storming second-quarter performance was undercut by charges linked to the chip unit's IPO. Sales for the quarter ending July 3 were $8.7bn, up 41% on the year. Analysts had expected revenue ...
EMC Bucks Q2 Trend.(quarter 2)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Despite poor results from other vendors, EMC Corp yesterday posted glowing second-quarter results, buoyed by strong mid-range hardware sales. Software sales at EMC were little affected by the weak customer demand seen by other suppliers such as Veritas Software Corp, and this ...
StorageTek Promises End-of-Year Rally.(Storage Technology Corp.)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Storage Technology Corp is promising to bounce back from the poor quarterly results it posted yesterday inline with the pre-announcement it made earlier this month. While the current and traditionally quiet third quarter will show only flat or limited revenue and income growth ...
Thor Breaks Out Password and Audit Software.(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Thor Technologies Inc is splitting its Xellerate provisioning software out into three separate products in its latest release to be announced today. The software has been renamed Xellerate Identity Manager 8.0, and two subsets of functionality dealing with ...
Total Network Turns on CLID Access.(calling line identification)(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Networking reseller Total Network Solutions Group is to tout a new two-factor authentication process as part of a fully managed phone-based user identification system for secure remote access. The TNS Authentication System authenticates using a username and password in ...
Oracle Throws Its Weight Behind Asianux.(Asianux, the joint Linux development of Red Flag Software Co Ltd and Miracle Linux Corp)(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... Oracle Corp has thrown its considerable marketing weight behind Asianux, the joint Linux development of Red Flag Software Co Ltd and Miracle Linux Corp, by making it one of its three globally supported Linux platforms. Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle is a driving force ...
US Engineering Group Opts for Kiwi IT Captive.(Brief Article)
Jul 21, 2004 ... US-based engineering group Montgomery Watson Harza has chosen New Zealand to set up a captive IT outsourcing arm, which is expected to employ approximately 20 people by the end of 2004. According to reports, Broomfield, Colorado-based MWH will relocate senior IT staff from the ...
Microsoft Bringing Partners into ALM Platform.(Application Lifecycle Management)
Jul 16, 2004 ... By Gavin Clarke Microsoft Corp will next month come a step closer to realizing its emerging Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) vision, by releasing a series of XML schemas underpinning its recently announced Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The schemas will help ...
CyberGuard Will Seek Cash to Boost Secure Offer.
Jul 16, 2004 ... By Kevin Murphy CyberGuard Corp will seek to raise cash to make its unsolicited takeover of rival firewall vendor Secure Computing Corp more appealing to investors, CEO Pat Clawson said yesterday. Secure's board of directors yesterday rejected CyberGuard's offer of a ...
Nokia Slumps as Sales Fail to Impress.
Jul 16, 2004 ... The prediction earlier this year by Nokia Corp of a tough second quarter has been borne out after the Finnish giant's domination of the world mobile handset market continued to slide amid plunging handset sales. For the quarter ending June 30, Nokia posted an 11% rise in ...
Sun Reveals Details on APL Partnership with Fujitsu.(Advanced Product Line partnership)(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Jul 16, 2004; ... By Timothy Prickett Morgan If it seemed like the Sparc partnership between Sun Microsystems Inc and Fujitsu Ltd was hastily thrown together when it was announced on June 1, it wasn't. Sun executives said yesterday that the Advanced Product Line partnership has been in the works ...
AutoZone Wins Stay in SCO Copyright Case.(The SCO Group Inc.)
Jul 16, 2004 ... SCO Group Inc legal target AutoZone Inc has been granted a stay in its ongoing copyright infringement case, pushing SCO's claims that Linux contains its Unix code further from court. The judge hearing the case granted Memphis, Tennessee-based AutoZone's motion that the case be ...
IBM Boosts Earnings as Sales Come In a Bit Shy.
Jul 16, 2004 ... By Timothy Prickett Morgan Given the choice between having lower sales and higher profits or higher sales and lower profits, Wall Street would prefer that any vendor choose profits. And that is what IBM Corp's new chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, said Big Blue did in ...
Moody's Slaps Junk Label on EDS.
Jul 16, 2004 ... Moody's Investor Service cut Electronic Data Systems' credit rating to junk bond status yesterday, drawing an immediate and sharp response from the services giant. Following a review, Moody's cut EDS' unsecured notes from Baa3, the lowest investment grade, to Ba1, considered the ...
Sony Ericsson Posts Profit and Ups Handset Forecast.(Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB)
Jul 16, 2004 ... Mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB continues to produce impressive results after posting higher than expected second-quarter profits and sales, mainly as a result of a 55% rise in handset shipments. For the second quarter ending June 30, it posted ...