Paul Krill

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has formed a technical committee to propose an XML-based management protocol specification for Web services, said a Novell official who is chairing the committee on Thursday.

Addressing the growing problem of heat dissipation in chips and systems, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday announced it is working on a suite of technologies to address heat generation and energy use in increasingly powerful microprocessors and data centres.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday announced it is working on a suite of technologies to address heat generation and energy use in increasingly powerful microprocessors and data centres.

Microsoft Corp. in the late-2003 timeframe plans to release the next version of the .Net Framework, code-named Whidbey, a company spokesman confirmed.

Oracle Corp. chairman and CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday said the software marketplace was returning to normal after a period of "market madness" in 1999 and 2000.

Systinet Corp. has released Version 4.0 of WASP (Web Applications and Services Platform), its suite of products for building and managing Web services that features improvements in areas such as security and performance.

IBM Corp. is looking to utilize Informix Corp. technology in its DB2 database to enable real-time analysis of streaming data such as ticker-tape data, company officials said this week.

Microsoft Corp. is seeking candidates to test Beta 2 of its 64-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise database which is being optimized for Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 hardware platform launched on Monday.