James Niccolai

Promising to reduce the time and hassle involved in setting up large databases, Unisys Corp. has announced a line of servers that come pre-configured with software and hardware from Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Veritas Corp. and others.

Sybase Corp. is set to announce on Oct. 28 the availability of an upgrade to its enterprise portal software, the company said Friday.

Intel Corp. reported third-quarter earnings Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street expectations, although revenue held approximately steady from a year earlier at US$6.5 billion.

Blaming what it called "the worst technology climate we've seen" since the mid-1970s, Oracle Corp. on Tuesday reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter that were down in both profit and revenue terms from the same period last year.

A recent analyst report on the relational database market puts Oracle Corp. in pole position, though Microsoft Corp. will quickly gain ground as customers become more confident about its software and seek new ways to reduce their IT budgets, according to the report's author.

IBM Corp. on Monday unwrapped what it characterized as a major upgrade to its DB2 database, adding self-management and self-tuning features designed to help customers reduce the cost of maintaining the product.

IBM Corp. on Monday unwrapped what it characterized as a major upgrade to its DB2 database, adding self-management and self-tuning features designed to help customers reduce the cost of maintaining the product.

BEA Systems Inc. announced the availability this week of WebLogic Portal 7.0, the latest version of its software for building corporate Web sites that provide access to a variety of applications and services for employees, customers and partners.