James Niccolai

BEA Systems Inc. has released an upgrade to its JRockit Java virtual machine (JVM) for servers based on Intel Corp. processors, the company said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. hopes to play alongside Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others in developing "virtual data centre" software that will make it easier to manage applications running across groups of servers, a company executive said Wednesday.

Senior engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. had serious doubts about using Java to build commercial applications for the company's own Solaris operating system, according to a memo leaked onto the Internet last week.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the official name for the next member of its Office family, formerly code named XDocs, and said a standards body for the health care industry is advocating use of the application as a way to help streamline medical records systems.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will incorporate an important specification with the next version of its enterprise Java platform that is designed to ensure interoperability among Web services applications.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will incorporate an important specification with the next version of its enterprise Java platform that is designed to ensure interoperability among Web services applications.

Bill Gates kicked off the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by unveiling the first products based on a futuristic technology that can turn everyday items into "smart objects" that receive information through the airwaves.

Microsoft Corp. said revenue increased 10 per cent in its second fiscal quarter to US$8.54 billion, a fraction less than analysts had been expecting but still higher than any quarter in its history. It also announced a two-for-one stock split and an annual dividend for its shareholders.