Robert McMillan

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IBM seeks to force SCO’s hand in lawsuit

IBM Corp. has filed new documents in its legal dispute with Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., accusing SCO of having no evidence to back up its copyright infringement claims, and asking the judge to throw a major component of the case out of court.

IBM looks to others for virtualization

One month after announcing plans to bring virtualization technology to systems based on its Power microprocessors, IBM Corp. this week revealed a few more details on how it plans to add a new range of virtualization software and technologies, called Virtualization Engine, to its Intel Corp.-based servers.

Microsoft updates Commerce Server

Three months after scrapping an effort to integrate its e-commerce, content management and integration software into one suite of products, Microsoft Corp. has decided to forge ahead with another major release of its e-commerce server software, which it expects to release in early 2006.

Sun’s Niagara chip ready for test production

Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken a step toward producing the first of its next generation of "throughput computing" processors. The company has completed the initial design of its first such processor, code named Niagara, and has now begun the process of producing the first prototypes of the chip, a Sun spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

IBM adds Brocade switches to BladeCenter

Two weeks after announcing plans to integrate an Ethernet switch from Cisco Systems Inc. into its BladeCenter servers, IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce a similar deal with Brocade Communications Systems Inc. to create new integrated Fibre Channel switches for the same line of high-density servers.

Novell releases first Mono beta

After months of delay, Novell Inc. expects to release a final version of its Mono software development platform by the end of next month, the company said, after releasing the first public beta of the Mono 1.0 software on a Web site earlier this week.

HP to release dual-processor Itanium module

Hewlett-Packard Co. next month will begin shipping a new multiprocessor daughtercard that will double the number of Itanium 2 processors supported by its Integrity servers.

Red Hat launches new desktop Linux

Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new version of the Linux operating system software designed for the corporate desktop.

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