Stacy Cowley

A new version of Sun Microsystems

RSA Security Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a joint sales, engineering and marketing agreement Thursday to integrate several of their network security products, an alliance the companies say will offer customers a complete security package and help administrators protect services and assets accessible through the Internet.

Amid rumors of impending layoffs and after a quarter in which IBM Corp. missed analysts' earnings expectations for the first time in a decade, newly installed Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano managed to skirt those issues for the most part Wednesday during the company's annual meeting in New York with financial analysts.

The new version of AvantGo

A new Microsoft Corp. tool for building business intelligence applications was scheduled for release Wednesday, backed by a dozen Microsoft partner companies ready to use the tool on client projects.

With the legal closing Friday of its Compaq Computer Corp. acquisition, and a turbulent nine months behind it, Hewlett-Packard Co. is at last poised to commence merged operations.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday apparently won the final battle in its lengthy campaign for approval of its intended acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., as a judge dismissed a lawsuit from former HP board member Walter Hewlett that sought to block the acquisition.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) is reorganizing its three largest business lines in an effort to win IT business away from the Big Five firms.