Robert McMillan

Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday will announce a variety of updates to its data management product lines, including new management software and an updated version of NetBackup with an option for backing up laptops and personal computers automatically.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s top executive, Carly Fiorina, has been appointed to Arnold Schwarzenegger's transition team.

The legal war between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp. took another step forward Friday, with the Utah-based software company asserting that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GNU General Public License (GPL) software license that governs the Linux operating system.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is in negotiations with Fujitsu Ltd. to transfer the production of its high-end servers and microprocessors to the Japanese company, according to a report in Thursday morning's edition of the Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Linux users outside of the Fortune 1000 cannot buy the software license The SCO Group Inc. has been offering since August as a way to protect themselves against legal action, the company confirmed Tuesday.

IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce a number of enhancements to its Shark Enterprise Storage System (ESS) Model 800 arrays designed to increase the performance and ease of management of the storage systems.

Sun Microsystems Inc. saw its first-quarter fiscal 2004 revenues decline eight per cent to US$2.5 billion, the Santa Clara, Calif., computer maker announced on Thursday.

As advances in microprocessor technology give engineers more transistors to design with, the next generations of computer chips will begin to take on the characteristics of computer systems and maybe even networks themselves, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice-president and chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, told the Microprocessor Forum (MPF) Tuesday.