Gillian Law

Mobile operator Orange SA will join an alliance of Telecom Italia Mobile SpA, Telef

SAS Institute Inc. rolled out enhancements to a handful of products at its SAS European Users Group International conference in Vienna, Austria, this week, and announced an acquisition designed to help it provide better risk management software for the financial services industry.

The market for Linux-based servers will triple in volume and double in value by 2007, according to research by IDC released Monday.

Unilever NV is rolling out a new Web-based system to improve communication with customers, suppliers and internal departments, it said Thursday.

The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) Wednesday announced that is has signed agreements with three information providers to create a new national health information extranet.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) continues to lead the European PC market, with about two million shipments in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the first quarter of 2003, IDC said in its preliminary results Web conference Thursday.

British Telecommunications PLC (BT) can now offer General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) roaming in 60 countries, after signing four new Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) agreements, it said Tuesday.

The Bank of Ireland is close to awarding a seven-year IT outsourcing contract to Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), HP said Monday.