Ed Scannell

IBM Corp. added another piece to its ongoing business intelligence initiative on Wednesday, acquiring Alphabox Corp., a small software company in Mountain View, Calif. that specializes in analytics software.

IBM Corp. on Monday unwrapped new software that allows corporate users to carry out both cross-platform and cross-domain scheduling by integrating enterprise-class applications across both grids and other distributed environments.

After kicking the decision around for a few months, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced it would make its entry into the high-performance computing (HPC) arena and promised to deliver a version of Windows Server 2003 for that market sometime during the second half of 2005.

BEA Systems Inc.'s Project Beehive will get a boost next Monday when the company announces at JavaOne that the Eclipse organization is working on a "top level" project that will support the product, according to sources.

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of its Express line of server-based applications, IBM Corp. on Monday said it is shipping a Linux-based version of Content Manager Express to beta testers and also touted plans to deliver the product on its iSeries platform shortly, with both the Linux and iSeries versions intended for midsize companies.

Hoping to ease the migration process involved with moving corporate users to new desktops, Symantec Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a new tool that automates many of the more mundane tasks associated with PC migration.

Practicing what it preaches as part of its On Demand gospel, IBM Corp. on Thursday announced a new grid-based program that allows developers to virtually access a range of hardware and software resources on an on-demand basis to build and sell solutions.

IBM Corp. this week put another piece of its integration strategy in place for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), unveiling a new WebSphere-based server that helps users better integrate both business processes and people.