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Gates To Kick Off PDC With Longhorn Overview

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...

Merrill to Sun: ‘Cut and Focus’ or Be Acquired

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...

New Phase of Sobig.F Set for Fridays

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...

Dell Ups Ante, Drops Prices 22%

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...

Sun: One Price Fits All for Orion, Mad Hatter

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,...

IT Spending Woes: EDS Profits Slide 56%

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...

PeopleSoft Pushes to Close J.D. Edwards Deal

Despite Oracle's sweetened offer to acquire PeopleSoft , the enterprise application vendor is pushing to close its $1.75 billion merger plan with fellow application company J.D. Edwards . The company...

ASPCA Adopts The Penguin

IBM is showing no signs of pulling away from Linux support, despite a lawsuit SCO Group filed against it over core code in the open source operating system. Big...

Microsoft Alters Licensing Plan, Drops Office XP Price

In what is widely viewed as a bid to boost sales of its desktop software suite, Microsoft has dropped the price of its Office XP family of desktop...

NYC: Leverage Fiber, Offer Free Wi-Fi

A new study from the New York City Council is recommending that the Big Apple throw open the competitive bidding process for its annual $130 million phone...

Analysts Expect Software Bounce in ’04

NEWYORK -- Businesses will stick to small purchases and minor upgrades according to US Bancorp Piper Jaffray software analysts. Speaking during a panel discussion Tuesday at the investment firm's...

CA Jumps into On Demand Fray

Enterprise management software maker Computer Associates is joining the on-demand trend by unveiling six new products for its Unicenter suite of software that help customers "dial-in"...

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