Ashlee Vance

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to announce a new software roadmap next month that will provide information on its plan to marry a variety of disparate product lines, according to a top executive at the company.

Sun Microsystems Inc. next month will announce a new version of its Sun LX50 server that will ship with software packages designed to let users make the system work like a server appliance.

Hewlett-Packard Co. will double the processor count in its Itanium servers in 2004, as the company attempts to fill a technology gap caused by Intel Corp.'s decision not to make multi-core Itanium processors until the middle of the decade.

In an effort to reduce management burdens for customers, Quantum Corp. has introduced a new disk-based storage system that appears to software as a tape library.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will lay off close to 11 per cent of its workforce, as the company continues to be punished by a slowdown in technology spending, Sun said Thursday in its earnings report for its first fiscal quarter of 2003.

IBM Corp. Tuesday provided more details on the latest version of its Unix operating system, touting the addition of mainframe class technology that could give users more control over their servers.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against EMC Corp., charging that its competitor uses HP's technology in both storage hardware and software products, the company announced Monday. EMC responded later Monday with a patent infringement suit of its own.

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