IBM announced this week it is buying data integration software firm Ascential for approximately $1.1 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 17, 2005
FarStone Technology announced a licensing agreement to bundle its software with Intel motherboards to enable system backup and disaster recovery, lost file retrieval and provide virtual CD/DVD drive and disc emulation.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 17, 2005
The Neverfail Group is shipping its Neverfail high-availability solution for end-to-end support of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 17, 2005
WinFS, the Windows future storage subsystem, could end up in Windows XP as well as Windows "Longhorn" when the technology ships, Microsoft officials said.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2005
Visual FoxPro 9.0, the latest update to a database technology Microsoft acquired in 1992, is generally available this week and will be supported through 2014.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2005
ScriptLogic is shipping Secure Copy 4.0, an important update to the company’s Windows server data migration product that adds multi-threaded copying aimed at providing the fastest copying performance among Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 16, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released its first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of "Indigo," the code-name for the company's new communications subsystem for Windows, and a second CTP of "Avalon," a new Windows presentation subsystem.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2005
When Microsoft formally acquires Groove Networks next quarter, Groove founder Ray Ozzie, an outspoken advocate of peer-to-peer virtual workspaces and a collaboration software pioneer, will join Bill Gates' personal stable of big thinkers.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 15, 2005
Add to the list of things you can count on – death, taxes and Bill Gates as the world’s richest man.
- By Lafe Low
- March 15, 2005
Microsoft is buying Groove Networks with the intent to roll the company's collaboration products into the Microsoft Office System and leverage Groove founder Ray Ozzie's skills across Microsoft in the role of Chief Technical Officer.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2005
Third-party companies this week rolled out services and add-on products to complement Microsoft’s Office Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) real-time collaboration tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 10, 2005
NuView's StorageX 5.5 adds the ability for administrators to build a unified global namespace across CIFS and NFS protocols and perform policy-based heterogeneous data management across Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, NetApp and others.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 10, 2005
NCR’s Teradata division is shipping NCR’s new 5400 Server, which it claims performs as much as 20 percent faster than previous servers running the company’s data warehousing solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 10, 2005
Microsoft will call its new integrated communications client Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and release the product to manufacturing in 90 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2005
As promised last week, Microsoft released no new security bulletins during its monthly "Patch Tuesday" event for March, but the company did push out two minor revisions of older security bulletins.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2005
The Microsoft IT Department this month posted a public account of its efforts in deploying Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 -- a sure sign the release of the service pack is imminent.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 07, 2005
Microsoft released its third Community Technical Preview for SQL Server 2005 this month with a new ad hoc reporting tool and 64-bit support for more components of Microsoft's flagship database.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 07, 2005
Microsoft will deliver the x64 editions of Windows Server 2003 at the beginning of April and the x64 edition of Windows XP later in the month, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin said at the Intel Developer Forum this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2005
Intel officials announced new details regarding the company’s upcoming dual and multi-core processors at its Spring 2005 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, including a two-year timeline for the arrival of key chips and technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 03, 2005
Critics associate Bill Gates with an "Evil Empire," but Microsoft's chairman is now formally attached to an official empire.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2005