Rebecca Reid

Hoping to improve its standing among a group that provided almost 30 per cent of its revenue last year, Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled an expanded program of products and services for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers Monday at the HP Partners America Conference in Los Angeles.

An e-mail leaked from the SCO Group Inc., indicating that Microsoft Corp. was behind a US$50 million investment in SCO in October 2003 by BayStar Capital, is inaccurate, SCO said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week released new business desktops running Mandrake Linux, making it the first of the world's top PC providers to ship a pre-loaded Linux desktop.

Novell Inc. has just released SuSE Linux 9.1 in Personal and Professional Editions, heeding the call from users for more scalability and better security in an enterprise-level Linux distribution.

Lower acquisition costs, lower total cost of ownership and greater flexibility in choosing hardware and software are the top reasons companies are deploying open source software, according to a recent survey.

Getting people to pay up when they're behind on their bills can be a tricky business. That's why the Accounts Recovery Corp. (ARC) must ensure its agents are well-trained to handle the logistical issues of debt collection in a professional and sensitive way.

BayStar Capital Inc. confirmed on Thursday it invested in SCO at the suggestion of Microsoft Corp.

A project valued at $48 million to unite supercomputing installations at four universities in western Canada has been completed, WestGrid announced this week.