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29th January 2010 Archive

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  • Windows 7 misses Microsoft's summit of success

    Beware the false bottom

    Microsoft has reversed the blow to its business wrought by the recessionary end of 2008, announcing second-quarter results more in-line with its standard performance. On Thursday, the company boasted the demand for Windows 7, launched in October, had propelled it towards record second-quarter revenue and profit. The comparable …

    Software & Security 29 Jan 04:12

  • Windows 7 upgrades Vista laptops to lower battery life

    Time to replace your brand new battery

    Laptop owners upgrading their Windows XP and Windows Vista machines to Windows 7 are complaining that Microsoft's new OS has severely reduced their available battery life. One user tells The Reg that after upgrading his circa 2007 HP notebook from Vista to Windows 7, the machine's battery life dropped from two hours to a half …

    Software & Security 29 Jan 06:39

  • Oracle hands out love and handcuffs to Sunware

    Hello, Java. So long, Kenai

    Oracle has unveiled a Java and open source strategy extending some but not all of the existing efforts at Sun Microsystems. Among the winners: Sun's HotSpot Java Virtual Machine, which will be integrated with the fast JRockit VM from BEA Systems; JavaFX, which should see an update by the summer; and Sun's Operations Center …

    Software & Security 29 Jan 07:02

  • Ellison: Only Oracle can do OLTP clustering

    Armonk, we have a problem

    You have to admire Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder and chief executive officer of IT giant Oracle. Well, maybe admire isn't the right word. But you can at least be amused by him. Yesterday, Ellison spent the last hour of the five-hour Sun takeover extravaganza taking questions from the audience, mostly fielding softball …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 08:02

  • Oracle sues support firm over 'massive theft'

    Shades of TomorrowNow

    Oracle is suing third-party support provider Rimini Street, alleging "massive theft" of its software and support materials via illegal access to its technical support websites. Rimini Street sells enterprise software support for Oracle SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards-branded software, boasting 50 per cent savings in …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 09:02

  • High-flying 3PAR down at ground level

    Revenues yes, profit not so much

    3PAR is growing revenues, but has seen the bottom line go red in its third quarter. Its product strengths don't seem strong enough to repel competitive pressures. Its third quarter 2010 revenues were four per cent up year-on-year at $50.1m, confirming as others have that the recession is definitely easing. Notwithstanding that …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 10:10

  • Xiotech reloads Matrix

    Comment ISEbergs warning

    Xiotech is aiming to build a Matrix eco-system of storage system app vendors linking its superdisk ISE enclosures with direct storage-controlling apps like VMware, Oracle and Exchange 2010. Matrix is not an HP-like integrated IT stack product set, but a dynamic set of storage resources coordinated by a Matrix controller doing …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 12:47

  • IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator

    More lawyers feast on the mainframe largesse

    With mainframe revenues off sharply and likely to be so until the System z11 mainframes ship much later this year, IBM can ill afford to look the other way as Neon Software peddles its zPrime tool for offloading mainframe workloads to much cheaper specialty engines on Big Blue's mainframes. So it has called out the lawyers and …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 16:18

  • Brits choose Altix UV supers to fight cancer

    SGI beefs pipeline

    The Altix UV massively parallel supers might not be shipping until the third quarter of this year, but Silicon Graphics is lining up customers who want to get the box early. The latest customer to ink a deal for an Altix UV is the United Kingdom's Institute of Cancer Research. Because Intel has yet to launch the "Beckton" …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 19:26

  • CA taps IBM alum as chief exec

    McCracken takes the helm

    CA has tapped another IBM veteran as its next chief executive officer, replacing its turn-around champion John Swainson, who retired from the IT management omnicorp's helm at the close of 2009. The company's new CEO, William McCracken, has served as executive chairman since Swainson's retirement plans were announced in …

    Enterprise 29 Jan 19:33

  • PHP fluffed to suck data from Microsoft's cloud

    Azure spit and polish

    Zend Technologies has updated its developer framework to improve the way PHP applications float on Microsoft's Azure cloud. The PHP shop has released version its Zend Framework 1.10, claiming it lets developers easily call Windows Azure APIs from their open-source PHP applications. Applications will be able to call the …

    Software & Security 29 Jan 21:35

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