Ashlee Vance

Compaq Computer Corp. began shipping a new storage product Monday that brings some of the company's higher-end data protection tools down to a less expensive piece of hardware.

Compaq Computer began shipping a new storage product on Monday that brings some of the company

Sun Microsystems Inc. dealt a double-blow to its users this week by ending the Solaris download program for Intel Corp.-based computers and saying it won't support Intel with its upcoming Solaris 9 operating system. The moves have angered some Solaris fans, who offered to start paying for the software if Sun would keep its support for Intel alive.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday said it will not support chips from Intel Corp. with the release of its Solaris 9 operating system this year, as the hardware maker looks to cut costs in a tough economic climate.

Sun Microsystems says it will not support Intel chips with the release of its Solaris 9 operating system this year, as the hardware maker looks to cut costs in a tough economic climate.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) asserted its Itanium bragging rights Thursday, boasting it is the leading seller of workstations using the chip from Intel Corp., but analysts put a damper on the company's claims, saying Itanium sales are few and far between.

Many technology companies took a beating throughout 2001, but two of the IT industry's biggest players, Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., rang in as the top performers on the key Dow Jones Industrial Average during 2001.

Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes to enlist some of the Internet's most popular Web sites to help promote the use of Java on PCs, as the programming language's place on the desktop remains uncertain.