Ashlee Vance

Hitachi Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday announced that they have extended a partnership to ensure that their respective storage-management software products will interoperate with each other's hardware products.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has responded to an angry user's public challenge to debate the future of a version of the Solaris operating system for Intel Corp. processors, saying the company is working on the issue in private and chastising the user for attacking Sun chief Scott McNealy.

Hewlett-Packard Co. may be ending shipments of the popular e3000 server next year, but on Wednesday the company nevertheless announced upgrades to the system with the addition of new processors and an updated operating system.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday launched a new line of Unix servers aimed at cost-conscious buyers, as it tries to inject new life into its flagging high-end hardware business.

A flagging worldwide economy has Sun Microsystems Inc. still expecting a loss for its first fiscal quarter, the company said Thursday in its mid-quarter update for analysts.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s server business took a beating in the second quarter as the company lost ground to all of its major rivals, according to data released Friday by Gartner Inc.

A U.S. federal judge Thursday threw out the claim by British Telecommunications PLC (BT) that Prodigy Communications Corp. violated a patent on hyperlinking, the technology that connects data on the Web via highlighted object links.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has a busy week planned for this month