Robert McMillan

A recent court filing from IBM Corp. appears to indicate a growing confidence on the part of the Armonk, N.Y., computing giant that it will prevail in its legal dispute with The SCO Group Inc., according to lawyers following the case.

NEC Electronics Corp. has licensed Transmeta Corp.'s LongRun2 power management software for use in the Japanese company's upcoming semiconductor products. The two companies will announce the agreement on Thursday during a press event in Tokyo.

IBM Corp. in May will begin shipping the company's first workstation powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron microprocessor.

Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Thursday separately announced agreements with the Chinese government to set up software development labs in the country: Microsoft for Windows, HP for Linux.

The Wyndham San Jose hotel got a taste this week of some of the power management issues that may be facing blade users in the next few years, as the hotel played host to the Server Blade Summit conference.

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. on Tuesday will begin shipping its first blade server based on Intel Corp.'s Xeon DP processor.

Dell Inc. on Monday announced plans to expand its partnership with storage vendor EMC Corp. by supporting EMC subsidiary VMware Inc.'s ESX Server, VMotion and VirtualCenter Management Server software on certain configurations of Dell's server and storage systems.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday will announce two new ProLiant servers, including a new US$499 system designed for small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers.