IBM Corp. on Sept. 17 will ship the first major upgrade to its DB2 Universal Database data management platform in nearly two years, focusing on functional automation, advanced clustering, and Web services deployment.
Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the 2004 JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Linux OS vendor Red Hat to join the Java Community Process (JCP), and also stressed that Sun, which has struggled financially lately, is not going away.
Newly released worldwide database market share figures offer differing views on who is No. 1.
Emphasizing ambitions in RFID (radio frequency identification), Microsoft on Monday announced the formation of the Microsoft RFID Council, a multi-vendor group that will study requirements for Microsoft's software to participate in RFID data processing systems.
JavaServer Faces, a standard technology for building user interfaces for Java-based Web applications, is now shipping.
Does IT matter? This was the question panelists sparred over during a debate at the SunNetwork 2003 conference in San Francisco. The contenders were Sun Microsystems Inc. chairman and CEO Scott McNealy and writer Nicholas Carr, who published an article in the May issue of The Harvard Business Review entitled, "IT Doesn't Matter". Also on the panel was venture capitalist Bill Gurley.
IBM has rolled out new Rational software development products, its first since officially acquiring the company in February.
Royalty-free industry specifications are needed to enable Web services to fulfill its potential as a mechanism for business process integration on a massive scale, Sun Microsystems officials stressed during a Sun "Chalk Talk" session in San Francisco on Thursday.