core part 1
VMware set to liberate core server product
News The company sells three core products, VMware Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server, but competition is on the horizon in a market VMware once had to itself. First in line is the open-source Xen effort that will become part of the two major... [03 Feb 2006]
Game over for Sony's robotic dog
News A Sony spokeswoman said: "Our core businesses are electronics, games and entertainment but the focus is going to be on profitability and strategic growth. As part of its ongoing cost-cutting and reorganisation effort, Sony has cut its line of... [27 Jan 2006]
City firms warned on disaster recovery plans
News The FSA said those businesses who represent the core of the UK's financial system have "highly resilient" IT systems and that they could recover critical functions rapidly following major operational disruption but warned there are several areas... [14 Dec 2005]
Microsoft preps Office 12 beta testers
News In addition to the core desktop product, a variety of server-based capabilities are in the works, though Microsoft has been fuzzy on the details. In a letter to those accepted to take part in the technical beta testing, Microsoft wrote: "You will... [14 Nov 2005]
Novell to slash 1,000 jobs?
News Messman wrote to Blum in a June letter disclosed in a regulatory filing: "As we have often publicly stated, we view Celerant as a non-core business. Since Microsoft undermined Novell's core business selling the NetWare server operating system, the... [24 Oct 2005]
Sony slashes seven per cent of its global workforce
News The company's two business units will include its Core Component Business Unit, which oversees its production of its flash-based memory sticks, and its Semiconductor Business Unit, which includes its Cell microprocessor, which Sony co-developed... [22 Sep 2005]
Oracle to launch retail brand for business apps
News Oracle says that, all told, it serves more than 1,900 retail customers with retail optimisation and planning software, as well as with its core database and enterprise resource-planning applications. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison revealed the software... [19 Sep 2005]
TechNet Webcast: Implementing Client Security on Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Part 1 of 3) - Core Client Security, Securing Applications and Group Policy for Standalone Clients - Level 200
White Paper Part one of this three-part series will show you the importance of implementing core client security, concentrating on securing applications and securing standalone Microsoft Windows clients. The threat of intruders and malicious code such as... [11 Aug 2005]
Technology is core 'DNA' of successful businesses
News For example, there is growing agreement that the improvements in US whole economy productivity growth over the last 10 years when compared with Europe’s is due in large part to its greater exposure to, and application of, ICT. [20 Jul 2005]
Misys wins Fortis Bank deal
News Ivan Martin, CEO of Misys Banking Systems, said: "It was clear to us that our core solutions have specific strengths that appeal to different customers in different markets. As a part of this strategy, Fortis is integrating its support services... [30 Jun 2005]
SCO updates its Unix product and open source attitude
OpenServer 6 is based on the same software core as the company's other operating system product, UnixWare, a later arrival that the company and its predecessors have emphasised for years but that never was adopted as much as OpenServer. [24 Jun 2005]
Cabinet Office relinquishes XML responsibility
Core and other non-local government schemas will continue to be managed by eGU. As part of the process local government XML schemas currently held on GovTalk will be moved to e-SB's Custodian Web site. [24 Mar 2005]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
Each rack contains 1,024 dual-core members of IBM's Power chip family. For running the basic performance test used to rank the top 500 computers (a test known as Linpack), each core can perform calculation work, but in many tasks one of the cores... [24 Mar 2005]
Red Hat doffs its cap at developers
News Projects such as Gentoo lure hard-core Linux programmers, while Sun is trying to build its own community of programmers around its OpenSolaris project. The upcoming Fedora Core 4 is slated to support computers with IBM's Power processors, such as... [22 Feb 2005]
Red Hat promises Fedora improvements
Projects such as Gentoo lure hard-core Linux programmers, while Sun is trying to build its own community of programmers around its OpenSolaris project. The upcoming Fedora Core 4 is slated to support computers with IBM's Power processors, which... [21 Feb 2005]
