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Sun Microsystems Inc. has sweetened the pot for customers who buy its UltraSPARC III processor-based servers or are planning to upgrade to its forthcoming UltraSPARC IV-based systems. The Santa Clara, Calif., company Wednesday announced two new payment plans for its UltraSPARC III-based Sun Fire 4800 and 6800 servers. The first plan lets customers buy the […]

Thanks to an expanded partnership with Novell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. is claiming to be the only major IT vendor to provide Linux systems from the desktop to the datacenter. The two companies, which already sell Linux on servers, announced Wednesday at Novells BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City that they would work together to sell […]

Texas Instruments Inc. is the latest chipmaker to announce plans to manufacture chips using a process that creates structures that are even smaller than the already tiny transistors on processors in current PCs and mobile devices. The company on Monday said it has already created 4M-bit test SRAM arrays based on the 65-nanometer manufacturing process […]

IBM continues to ramp up its efforts to bring Linux to SMBs and to migrate Windows users to Linux. The company last week doubled to $10,000 the incentives for its partners that help small and midsize businesses implement Linux solutions. IBM officials said such efforts ease implementations and lower startup costs. “Half of all Linux […]

BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday will unveil a lower-cost version of its development tools for deploying small-scale Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications for its flagship WebLogic application server. WebLogic Workshop Professional Edition, which will be priced at $995, includes all of the capability of BEAs WebLogic Platform 8.1, with an application server, portal, […]

If youre like most IT professionals, when you hear the word “network” youre likely to picture a web of computers or looming security threats—certainly not your social circle. But a panel of experts gathered in New York this week to dispel that perception and instead talk about the importance of social networks in the enterprise. […]

Networking equipment maker 3Com Corp. on Thursday announced wider losses in the third quarter, which ended Feb. 27. The Marlborough, Mass., company reported a net loss of about $86 million for the quarter, compared with a loss of $79 million for the year-ago quarter. 3Com was hit with $40 million in restructuring charges in the […]

IBM continues to ramp up its efforts to bring Linux to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and to migrate Windows users to Linux. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Tuesday increased incentives for its business partners who help SMBs implement Linux solutions. IBM doubled the financial incentive for partners who team up with distributors, resellers, consultants, integrators […]

D-Link Systems cant stop the rain, but its new wireless 802.11g access point can withstand rain, snow, sleet and lightning. Built for the outdoors, the AirPremier DWL-2700AP is waterproof and includes a built-in heater that keeps the device at 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The device supports AP-to-AP bridging and point-to-multipoint bridging for connecting multiple […]

America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo announced last week what they said are the first industry lawsuits against spammers since the federal CAN-SPAM Act took effect in January. The groups six suits, filed in four federal courts, target “hundreds of the most notorious spammers on the Internet,” said AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham in a conference […]