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IBM Corp. plans to invest US$200 million over the next two years to equip and staff its new AIX Collaboration Center. The vendor hopes the facility will help create a closer working...

IBM Corp. announced plans to provide free access for researchers and educational institutions to the specifications for its PowerPC 405 chip core. The move is yet one more way in which IBM is trying to widen the number of users of its Power processors.

Software compliance and license management company Palamida Inc. Wednesday unveiled a partnership with CollabNet Inc. and launched an initiative to encourage software vendors to list the third-party intellectual property contained in their products under the banner "IP Ingredients."

While employees and competitors are putting pressure on companies to deploy Linux on desktops, a lack of applications remains the biggest hurdle for the operating system, according to a survey from Linux development consortium Open Software Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) released.

IBM Corp. has won a deal for its 64-bit Power5 Unix servers with China's State Administration of Taxation, that it says represents the company's largest Unix installation in Asia. The installation will rank among the company's top 10 largest Unix customers.

Cisco Systems Inc. doesn't expect its planned US$6.9 billion acquisition of set-top box manufacturer Scientific-Atlanta Inc. to result in significant employee layoffs or integration costs, according to a Cisco senior executive.

Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) is to launch its online patent commons reference library Tuesday. The group hopes it will give users more confidence about using open-source software by allaying some concerns about the possibility of patent litigation.

IBM Corp. retained its lead of the Top500 list of supercomputers with its BlueGene/L System installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore, California. The system topped the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers in the world for the third consecutive time and is likely to remain number one for some time since its size doubled earlier this year.