Andy Patrizio

IT researchers Gartner and IDC both released first quarter 2007 server sales figures that show HP is flattening the competition, even the mighty IBM, although IBM is showing there’s still life left in its venerable mainframe. The two research firms are usually pretty close in their estimates and this quarter there were only a few […]

Reporter’s Notebook LOS ANGELES — “Microsoft shipped Windows before the drivers were ready. People shouldn’t be so quick to jump because there’s a serious lack of drivers and it breaks many applications from previous versions.” Sound familiar? It should, because it’s what a lot of reporters were saying about Windows XP when it launched in […]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – It would seem obvious that a show like the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) would be the place to lay out a roadmap for the future, but in this case, Microsoft’s map doesn’t stretch very far. This year’s WinHEC show comes smack between the release of the new client software, Vista, […]

AMD today said it has improved its test center for evaluating dual- and quad-core processors. The AMD (Quote) Developer Center, located in the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif. offices, includes a test bed for the new quad-core Opteron processor, code-named “Barcelona.” Later in this quarter, AMD will offer customers and partners access to fully configured dual-core and quad-core […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) was supposed to be the technology for building modular server-side enterprise applications, but a stumble by Sun Microsystems, coupled with its newfound openness, has given rise to an alternative that’s gaining in popularity. The Spring Framework, first written by British consultant Rod Johnson in 2000, jumped ahead of […]

Sun Microsystems today will announce it’s released a fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Sun is planning a formal announcement today at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The company said last November it intended to make the code […]

IBM’s chip researchers have been in anything but a vacuum lately. They have been busy developing a special polymer that can self-assemble, putting an insulator around wires at the nano-scale level and allowing the trend for smaller/faster/cooler chips to continue. IBM (Quote) modeled the concept after self-assembly seen in nature, such as the way a seashell, […]

Ever feel like you need a map to keep up with all of the products coming from Intel? That’s because the company uses one to pick out its codenames. While headquarters is situated firmly in the heart of the Silicon Valley — Santa Clara, Calif., to be exact — the primary development is done in […]

Just a few miles north of the official geographic territory known as the Silicon Valley in San Mateo, Calif., one of the hottest companies in the high-tech sector is launching a hatchery of sorts for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Salesforce.com (Quote) took over what had been the offices for Siebel Systems after Oracle bought the company and […]

Tradition has it that when Microsoft releases a new operating system, hardware OEMs shift to the new platform almost immediately and phase out the old OS as soon as possible. But Dell’s customers have told it, not so fast, pardner. For the second time since establishing IdeaStorm to solicit customer feedback, Dell (Quote) is changing policy […]

The Intel (Quote) Developer Forum in Beijing, China, this week has geared its announcements toward the smaller end of the systems scale to complement yesterday’s focus on the desktop and server space. The next generation of the company’s Centrino mobile processor technology, code-named Santa Rosa, is due in May, with laptops based on the technology […]

In the course of Tuesday’s earnings conference call with press and analysts, Intel’s CEO inadvertently confirmed what Microsoft would not: that there is a service pack coming for Vista later this year. While discussing its projections, Paul Otellini was asked where Vista fits in to Intel’s (Quote) sales projections for the year. Otellini responded that he […]