Ed Scannell

IBM Corp. will underline its ongoing companywide commitment to SMBs (small and medium-size businesses) this week when it introduces new versions of DB2, Notes, and Tivoli at its PartnerWorld conference in New Orleans.

IBM Corp. on Monday announced a makeover of its iSeries line of servers, rolling out new high-end Power 4-based systems with significantly different price changes and options, and making the servers more capable participants in its company's Computing On Demand initiative.

Continuing to fiddle with the name of its upcoming Windows server, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced it will drop the .Net branding from the product's name and will simply call it Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft Corp. last month rolled out a set of architectural guidelines to help IT managers in larger companies build and manage working datacentres made up of Windows and non-Windows technologies.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Linux NetworX Inc. on Wednesday announced they will partner to strengthen each other's Linux-based clustering solutions by delivering lower priced supercomputers.

Trying to bolster developer support for its upcoming Office 11 applications suite, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a new set of tools that will allow programmers to use the company's Visual Studio .Net to build customized solutions around Word and Excel documents

Trying to bolster developer support for its upcoming Office 11 applications suite, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a new set of tools that will allow programmers to use the company

IBM Corp. on Monday unwrapped a new series of Intel- and Power 4-based workstations aimed at engineering and other technical markets that will be bundled with systems management technology and services.