21st June 2005 Archive

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SOA ready for the masses?

The jury's in

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the Big Thing of the moment – taking the last Big Thing of Web Services and moving towards the next Big Thing of Utility / Grid Computing. Well, that’s what the vendors want you to believe, anyway – and with the majority of vendors agreeing on one thing – that SOA can be spun to their …

Software & Security 21 Jun 2005, 09:33
Moseley mops up Proxim’s assets

Distress sale

Once a top three wireless LAN player and with a peak share price of $250, Proxim filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week with its shares down at 32 cents, less than three per cent share of the Wi-Fi market, and facing delisting from the Nasdaq exchange. Its first action was to sell “substantially all assets” to …

PC Builder 21 Jun 2005, 09:33
Blu-ray, HD DVD merger talks scrapped

Parties can't agree

The two, rival blue-laser optical storage formats, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, will not be coming together, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi admitted yesterday. Talks between the BD-backing Sony and HD DVD cheerleader Toshiba have ended, he said, in an interview with Nikkei Electronics. Surprise, surprise. …

PC Builder 21 Jun 2005, 11:01
EU jettisons software patent amendments

Big business happy

The European Directive on Computer Implemented Inventions edged closer to becoming law, yesterday, when the Parliamentary JURI committee voted to scrap most of the amendments to the directive put in place to restrict the patentability of pure software inventions. Some of the changes proposed by Michel Roccard, the bill's …

Software & Security 21 Jun 2005, 11:40
Open Source lab for local councils

Testing, testing...

Local councils looking to move to Open Source software will find it easier to test possible solutions with the opening of a dedicated lab in Manchester. The National Computing Centre has opened the Open Source Laboratory as part of the Open Source Academy funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The lab has already …

Software & Security 21 Jun 2005, 11:45
Medea gains UK solus for HP optical media

Also, new franchises for Azlan and Target

Medea International, the Dundee-based IT products wholesaler, has secured exclusive UK rights to distribute HP’s new line of optical storage media. Customers can burn their own designs on to the HP-branded DVD and CDD optical media, thanks to Lightscribe, a special coating used on the upper surface of the discs. Of course you …

IT Channel 21 Jun 2005, 11:52
Cisco branches out into middleware

Climbs up the application stack

Cisco announced plans on Tuesday to expand out of its core routing business into messaging middleware. The first product from Cisco's Application-Oriented Network (AON) initiative, which aims to embed application aware traffic management into network infrastructures, are due to become generally available by the end of the year …

Software & Security 21 Jun 2005, 14:00
LogicaCMG goes down the Tube

Metronet's IT is outsourced

Metronet, one of London Underground's private partners responsible for maintaining large portions of the tube network, has outsourced its IT service and support to LogicaCMG in a six-year deal worth £18m. LogicaCMG will provide a service desk for all end users, remote management of Metronet's IT infrastructure, and desktop, …

IT Channel 21 Jun 2005, 15:35
HP's Mr Blade opens Intel's power envelope to all

More Watts than you can shake an Opteron at

Many of you probably don't know HP's Mr Blade. You should. He's one cool character and full of information on Intel's upcoming Xeon processors. Mr Blade - aka Ken Baker, an Infrastructure Technologist at HP - gives a vague outline of the TDP (thermal design power) figures on the Xeons, in a presentation that has leaked to the …

PC Builder 21 Jun 2005, 16:20