Infrastructure

Montreal-based Linuxant Inc. last week released DriverLoader 1.6, a compatibility-wrapper allowing Linux users to use the wireless capabilities of Intel Corp.'s Centrino chip.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday became the third major vendor to announce products based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processor, joining IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Even as Linux has continued its slow, steady, well-publicized trek to enterprise acceptance, it has quietly started catching on in another market

Veritas Software Corp. Tuesday released Storage Foundation 4.0, the latest version of its storage management and virtualization software that allows companies to deploy utility computing across storage, servers and applications.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the only U.S. retailer that sells Mary-kateandashley One, a new fragrance branded by twin teenage entertainment moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Behind the scenes, fragrance and cosmetics manufacturer Coty Inc. depends on a hybrid business-to-business system that combines new standards and old technology

PeopleSoft Inc. next week will unveil a set of applications designed to help users streamline their supply chain operations, as part of the software vendor's continuing effort to boost its standing among manufacturers.

Citing the need to upgrade the PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Supplier Relationship Management suite to support demand-driven manufacturing, PeopleSoft will unveil three major components to the suite at the National Manufacturing Week 2004 Conference in Chicago this week.

Fry Inc. has been using Microsoft Corp. software to design, develop and host e-commerce sites during much of the past eight years. But that's expected to change.