Robert McMillan

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) researchers on Tuesday revealed details of how their company plans to build processors using the next-generation 45-nanometer process technology that AMD hopes to have in production by as early as 2007.

Oracle Corp. has issued a security alert and software patches for a set of serious vulnerabilities in the security protocols used by some of its server products.

A judge ruled in favour of IBM Corp. in two motions argued in a Utah district court Friday in its ongoing legal dispute with The SCO Group Inc., a SCO spokesperson confirmed.

Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law.

Discussions aimed at merging Sun Microsystems Inc.'s NetBeans Java development framework with the IBM Corp.-backed Eclipse group have broken down, Sun said on Wednesday. The news ends months of speculation about whether Sun, the company that created Java, would join forces with IBM, one of Java's biggest supporters, and unify the two companies' efforts to create a standard open-source development environment for Java.

As part of a new campaign designed to steal market share away from storage vendor EMC Corp., IBM Corp. is arming 100 of its consultants and a handful of its channel partners with a new storage migration appliance, code-named Piper, that Big Blue claims will simplify and speed up the replacement of old storage arrays.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will unveil the first product of its recently announced partnership with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD): a blade server based on AMD's 1.53 GHz Mobile Athlon XP 1800+ processor. The Sun Fire B100 blade server will be the first AMD-based system designed by Sun, the company said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is set to announce a new storage product line Monday aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family will be made up of existing HP products, repackaged and rebranded to make them more appealing to smaller companies.