11th December 2009 Archive

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Rambus soothes EC ire with lower prices

Antitrust charges dropped

The European Commission is letting Rambus off the hook now that the US firm has offered to cap licensing rates for some of its industry-standard chip technology. Europe's top antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has dropped charges against Rambus, makes no finding of liability, and will levy no fine against the company. …

PC Builder 11 Dec 06:02
IBM punts Linux-only mainframes

Big MIPS, deep discounts

It's nearly a year before the next generation of mainframes is expected from IBM, and that means the marketing and sales people are going to have to get clever about packaging and pricing to peddle more MIPS. That is what the new Linux-only, mainframe-based Enterprise Linux Server is mostly about. IBM has been selling Linux on …

Enterprise 11 Dec 07:02
Red Hat opens up Spice desktop virtualisation protocol

Starts plotting Fedora 13 features

In keeping with its practice of eventually open sourcing the software technologies it acquires or creates, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat has said that it has let go of the code behind the Spice protocol. This was a key ingredient of the Solid ICE desktop virtualisation platform that it got its hands on when it bought KVM …

Enterprise 11 Dec 15:46
HP strike off - for now

Ex-EDS staff up tools. Talks ahoy

The Public and Commercial Services Union called off yesterday's strike by 1,000 of its members employed by HP, ahead of talks next week. HP confirmed the postponement and said it would be meeting the PCS next Wednesday 16 December. The workers are mostly ex-EDS staff unhappy at changes to their terms and conditions since HP …

IT Channel 11 Dec 16:31
Sage payment processor goes titsup - again

Groundhog day so close to Christmas. Bah, humbug

SagePay has been hit by what appears to be yet another spectacular outage, only three months on since the payment processor, which serves 25,000 firms in the UK and Ireland, collapsed for 24 hours on 8 September. Customers have contacted The Register to complain about SagePay's latest unscheduled lie-down. The service, which …

IT Channel 11 Dec 16:41
Sun brews up Java EE 6

GlassFish server, NetBeans IDE drink it

Sun Microsystems is still the steward of the Java programming language and its related virtual machine and runtime environment. Despite its PR blackout as the $7.4bn acquisition of Sun by Oracle is mulled by European regulators, Java Enterprise Edition version 6, or Java EE 6, has been released. Sun has also delivered versions …

Enterprise 11 Dec 16:59