Juan Carlos Perez

Spending on IT consulting will drop "dramatically" by 4.6 percent this year from 2002, according to a recent survey of chief information officers (CIOs) done by the research department of investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

Linux software vendor Red Hat Inc. plans to officially announce Monday two enterprise applications it has been developing and selling for the past year: a content management system and a portal server.

SuSE Linux AG now plans to ship its SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system in June, a delay from original plans to ship it during the just-ended first quarter of 2003.

Red Hat Inc.'s desktop operating system for consumers has been enhanced to handle multithreading better than its predecessor.

SuSE Linux AG on Wednesday announced the general availability of its SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 operating system for Intel Corp.'s family of 64-bit Itanium processors.

Digital subscriber line (DSL) will continue growing by leaps and bounds both in terms of revenue and accounts in Latin America in the coming years, as consumers and businesses adopt this broadband technology to improve their Internet use, according to a new Pyramid Research Inc. report published this week.

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Wednesday it is strengthening the services it provides to buyers of HP servers and workstations that run on Red Hat Inc.'s Linux operating systems.

A survey of top IT executives at large companies paints a somber picture for growth in corporate IT spending in 2003 and in years to come.