Rebecca Reid

IBM Corp. is trying to drive sales of its eServer pSeries family of high-end Unix servers by boosting the boxes

Bell Canada is creating three new divisions and consolidating its corporate functions with its parent company, Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (BCE) as part of a strategy to better serve its customers.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sold its international business process outsourcing (BPO) operations to Exult Inc., a company that provides human resources (HR) services, for US$17 million in cash, Exult announced this week.

Sun Microsystems Inc. threw its hat into the collaboration ring in April when it released its Sun Open Net Environment (ONE) Business Collaboration platform that allows its users to communicate on projects and share information.

Sun Microsystems Canada Inc. announced last week it will be partnering with EDS Canada to deliver smart card solutions to government organizations.

At a user conference in Chicago on Monday, Information Builders Inc. announced version 5.0 of its WebFOCUS product, an application development and reporting tool designed specifically for Web-based environments.

While double-digit growth in the systems integration services market is a thing of the past, a recent report from Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Ltd. indicates that this market will start to recover in the second half of 2003, and grow six per cent in 2004.

After years of being criticized for the high cost of its products, Xerox Corp. says it's re-tooling its business strategy.