Matthew Hicks

Dell Computer Corp. is broadening its networking reach with plans to roll out three new PowerConnect LAN switches by the end of July. But thats not all. The Round Rock, Texas, company is also eyeing moves into Layer 3 switching—so far, it has offered only Layer 2—and into the 10 Gigabit Ethernet arena, Kim Crawford, […]

Oracle Corp. this week will release Oracle9i Database Release 2 amid news that the company is losing ground in the market to IBM and as the company faces renewed questions about its business practices. Last week, Oracle fell from the top spot in overall database market share, replaced by rival IBM, according to 2001 market […]

Nortel Networks Ltd. is converging dynamic routing and virtual private networking technology into a single device as it rolls out a new line of its Contivity VPN gateways. Nortel announced five new Contivity Secure IP Services Gateways at NetWorld+Interop this week that allow enterprises to deliver secure IP services, such as quality of service, firewalls […]

LAS VEGAS–Dell Computer Corp., after having joined the LAN switching fray eight months ago, is broadening its reach by targeting the enterprise market. The Round Rock, Texas, vendor plans to add three additional managed switches to its PowerConnect line by the end of July, said Kim Crawford, vice president and general manager of Dell Networking, […]

Cisco Systems Inc. continued a slight rebound in its third quarter ended April 27, increasing sales 2 percent and posting a slight profit after suffering wide losses last year. The San Jose, Calif., networking company, which announced earnings Tuesday, said that net sales for the quarter were $4.8 billion, up from $4.7 billion in the […]

LAS VEGAS–Buoyant a day after his company reported positive earnings, Cisco Systems Inc. President and CEO John Chambers during his keynote today here at NetWorld+Interop lauded the ability of increased productivity to pull high technology out of its doldrums. Chambers specifically cited a Labor Department report on Tuesday that productivity–output per hour worked–grew 8.6 percent […]

Oracle Corp. has lost its reign atop the market for new database sales as IBM overtook it by just under 3 percentage points, according to a 2001 database market report being released Tuesday by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. IBM held 34.6 percent of the overall market for new database license sales in […]

Oracle Corp. is heading into the final stretch for Release 2 of its flagship Oracle9i database with versions of it becoming available next week, company officials said. Release 2 initially will be available on Sun Solaris for download to members of its online Oracle Technology Network, or OTN, at otn.oracle.com during the week of May […]

LAS VEGAS — Hoping to propel greater adoption of Gigabit Ethernet across the enterprise, Intel Corp. at Networld+Interop on Tuesday announced a new desktop adapter and five server adapters at prices rivaling that of their 10/100 counterparts. “We think the industry needs to go the next step,” said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general […]

Database vendors such as IBM and Oracle Corp. seek to expand far beyond simply managing relational data. In their efforts, theyre raising a fundamental question for enterprises: Should information as far-flung as e-mail, documents, multimedia and XML be stored in the same vendors DBMS, or should the database act to virtually unify all forms of […]