Year: 2005

  • Oracle Defends Its Math on Multicore Discount

    Oracle Defends Its Math on Multicore Discount

    Lisa Vaas

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    Oracle Corp.’s vice president of pricing and licensing defended the math behind the company’s new and comparatively stingy 25 percent rebate on multicore processors, saying that customers are now getting charged for what they in fact get: a 1.5 to 1.75 times performance boost from a dual-core chip. “We have done quite a bit of… Read more

  • IBM Launches Public-Sector Program for Partners

    IBM Launches Public-Sector Program for Partners

    Pedro Pereira

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    Channel companies developing applications and delivering integration services to the public sector now can tap the IBM technical, sales and marketing colossus to reach more customers. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant on Thursday announced that it is expanding a vertical market-focused program it launched last year for ISVs to include VARs, consultants and system integrators… Read more

  • Sun Adds Glamour to Thin Clients

    Sean Gallagher

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    Sun Microsystems Inc. has renewed its efforts to get the world interested in its thin-client computing platform, Sun Ray. Earlier this year, the company released both a new hardware client (the Sun Ray 170) and server software—including a version that runs on Linux. I have a long history with thin-client computing, dating back to my… Read more

  • Keane Goes (Profitably) Down Under; Accenture Looks Overseas

    John Moore

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    Keane Inc. has been selected for a $367 million contract to develop and manage a ticketing system for the Australian state of Victoria. The pending contract is the first ever for Keane in Australia, where the Boston-based company has been pursuing the ticketing deal for about a year. “We looked at this as an opportunity… Read more

  • SMBs Basking in IT Industry Attention

    SMBs Basking in IT Industry Attention

    John Pallatto

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    IT companies frequently talk as if the small and midsize business market they are all competing to serve is some newly discovered continent that is theirs to conquer. But the fact is that companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and a host of others have been selling hardware or software… Read more

  • Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

    Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

    Charles Garry

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    With all the recent public disclosures of data-privacy breaches, the spotlight is shining brightly on database security. Databases are clearly under direct attack from hackers on an ever-increasing basis. To paraphrase a famous exchange, “Why do you hack into databases?” “Because that’s where the data is!” In recent years we have seen an increasing number… Read more