Oracle’s roadmap still leaves some questions unanswered—particularly for J.D. Edwards users. Company spokesmen reiterate support for existing users until at least 2013.
Chip giant Intel last week announced a reorganization of its business units, while HP announced new Itanium solutions and updated software for OpenVMS
An updated SQL Server ("Yukon") and Visual Studio, plus a new edition of Windows Server 2003 are among the highlights from the software giant
Existing Big Iron shops should continue to add capacity at a healthy clip, and more and more OS/390 laggards will finally make the move to z/OS
Novell sees a sizeable upside to Linux on the desktop—and hints that the sun might soon set on Microsoft’s Windows empire
CA touts ongoing initiative to modernize, simplify, and integrate its Unicenter mainframe software line
Has Novell’s acquisition of SuSE been a success? Twelve months later, the jury is still out.
A pSeries system anchored by IBM’s new Power5 processor obliterates the competition in a standard industry benchmark
BMC doesn’t think the reemergence of Big Iron is a fluke—and it’s putting its money where its mouth is
Vendors tout new products and services designed to appeal to their bread-and-butter application server constituencies—enterprise developers
The service-oriented architecture vision in practice may not be quite the slam dunk it looks like on paper
When is iSCSI a more appropriate solution for your data center than fibre channel?
Programming automation gives developers more freedom to do their jobs
IBM says its new iSeries i595 and pSeries p595 systems are the largest and most powerful non-mainframe systems it has ever delivered
iSCSI isn't just for small data centers. To understand how iSCSI fits in your data center, we look at the four important tiers of servers. (Part 1 of 2)
Using existing development methods, companies end up with software that doesn’t do what they need it to do. Agile software development offers a new mindset and approach to building applications that succeed.
Metadata architecture is the lynchpin of the overall archive architecture. We explore three types of metadata: contextual, descriptive, and audit/control.
IBM’s move could drive down the cost of entry for many potential adopters—and stimulate additional sales for BladeCenter
Short-term data loss isn't all you have to guard against
A cooler, more flexible, and more powerful Itanium design may yet succeed where brute force alone hasn’t been enough