Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — A day after getting slapped with a new lawsuit over Linux, Novell’s top man said 2004 will be a year of further growth of open source in major enterprise applications and the desktop — albeit with a few assumptions. CEO Jack Messman Wednesday said, first his company must defend itself against a […]

Investment banks are in love with technology again, fueled in part by the continued rally in the tech-heavy Nasdaq index, which is up by over 50 percent in the past 24 months, thanks in part to a solid outlook in the semi-conductor sector. SG Cowen is the latest technology investment research concern to adjust its […]

Open source advocates say IT research bears out their claims that the many flavors of Linux are making steady strides in enterprise deployments. But ask open source fans to comment on IBM’s refusal to indemnify its Linux customers in the face of litigation over copyright disputes in some Linux code, and the arguments tend to […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft’s pre-beta version of its Visual Studio .NET platform, “Whidbey”, is offering a trove of new simplified tools and features that should make developers jobs easier, while giving Microsoft critics new fodder, attendees at the Professional Developers Conference here said. “What we are hearing from developers on Visual Studio .NET is that […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates is slated to kick off the company’s Professional Developers Conference here Monday with an overview of its latest pre-beta Windows operating system and how it advances the company’s .NET                ‘’                                                        […]

A prominent technology analyst for Merrill Lynch is urging Sun Microsystems to slash as much as 15 percent of its workforce and focus on being a niche player in mission-critical computing — or risk joining the “carcasses” of formerly-great companies DEC and Data General at the bottom of a tech “ravine.” In an open letter […]

The Sobig.f worm that continues to bedevil computer networks around the globe is poised to unleash a new phase of its havoc between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Friday, security experts warned, even though they may have already blunted its intended effect. Security firm F-Secure Corporation warned on Friday that the […]

Computer maker Dell upped the pressure on the rest of the computer industry Wednesday when it announced price reductions on its enterprise, small-medium business and consumer products by as much as 22 percent. The move is sure to increase pressure on other systems vendors, who are already struggling with eroding margins as a result of […]

Sun Microsystems plans to offer aggressively low prices for its upcoming bundled platform of servers and middleware systems, called Project Orion, with a per-employee licensing model, the company’s chief software architect said Monday. “The cost of deploying Orion will be dramatically less than the cost of hand-assembling a lot of different parts,” on an enterprise […]

Profits for computer services giant EDS plunged by 56 percent for the second quarter, as the company weathered a sharp drop in IT spending and braced for more charges because of accounting rule changes. The Plano, Texas-based EDS said net income for the quarter was $138 million, (28 cents per share), which was down 56 […]