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Sun Acquires Server Technology Startup
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday announced that it would acquire server-technology firm Kealia, Inc. The start-up firm specializes in server designs utilizing Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processor. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who served as the company’s vice president of technology from 1984 to 1995, where…
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eBay to Expand Developers’ Access With Beefier Web Services
SAN DIEGO—eBay Inc. is expanding its developer program to support more Web services protocols and programming languages, the company announced on Tuesday during the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference being held here. eBay’s announcement meshed with one of the key themes outlined during the opening day of the conference: That major Web players such as eBay,…
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IBM Preps New Basel II Tool
As the deadline for Basel II compliance nears, IBM’s business intelligence solutions group is readying a new DB2-based tool to help financial institutions comply. Karen Parrish, vice president of World Wide Sales for IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions, told eWEEK.com that Big Blue, of Armonk, N.Y., is preparing templates that will help Basel II-affected companies respond…
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Broadmargin Curtails Telecom Costs
At U.S.Bancorp, the monthly bill from one telecommunications supplier is so large that it typically arrives in 12 boxes. That supplier is just one of more than 300 telecom providers serving the bank. Spending roughly $13 million on telecom services each month, the eighth-largest bank in the country found it could no longer manage the…
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Eclipse Moves Ahead
The Eclipse open-source development platform entered a new era last week. At the first Eclipse developer conference here, leading Eclipse developers praised the newly independent Eclipse organization and offered glimpses of things to come in the next version of the platform, 3.0. Erich Gamma, Java Development Tools leader for Eclipse, and John Wiegand, Eclipse platform…
