IBM Corp. made a move this week to shore up what some observers see as its lead in the Web-based tools market, announcing it has tightly integrated its Websphere application servers with its Java-based development tools.
Already firmly committed to Linux on its server platforms, IBM this week shored up support for the open source operating system on its client machines, announcing its ThinkPad 600 is now the first laptop certified to run Red Hat's version of Linux.
IBM officials confirmed on Monday they have discontinued its joint development effort with Sun Microsystems to bring to market the JavaOS for Business, a thin-client operating system that was expected to be bundled with systems from both companies.
Linux is continuing to gain momentum among both large and small business users, and may sustain that growth with the cautious acceptance of Windows 2000 during the next 12 to 18 months, according to an IDC study released on Tuesday.
IBM Tuesday announced it has beefed up its developerWorks Web site by adding Linux and Web architectures, changes that come directly from suggestions made as part of a visitor survey.
Lotus still noncommittal about Linux ports of SmartSuite or Notes client
Microsoft will choose privacy-aware sites for advertising
VA Linux Systems formally launched on Tuesday its Linux.com Web site, which it hopes to turn into a community portal supplying news, software products, and technical data of interest to Linux users and developers.
All products will be Win 2000 aware by end of 2001
IBM has detailed a program aimed to create richer multimedia applications that fully exploit the next-generation Internet2 for conducting electronic-business.
Apparently having bitten off a bit more than they can chew, Lotus Development officials announced on Wednesday that they are delaying delivery of the critical Notes Release 5 groupware product from mid-February to the end of March.
IBM yesterday took the first step toward launching the second major piece of the next-generation Internet by announcing the Internet 2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) initiative, designed to support advanced applications such as real-time broadcast and video.
Looking to provide the salve for year-2000 problems, IBM later this month will launch a Web site clearinghouse that includes free software and analysis tools to fix a variety of year-2000 problems on IBM PCs dating as far back as the early 1980s.
The company's PC Systems Year 2000 "Road Map" Web site offers users with systems as old as those with a PC AT bus, a series of diagnostic tools and access to the software needed to get their PCs ready for the year-2000 environment.
"ClassLoader" mechanism again the culprit
Release will allow IT managers to administrate Windows NT servers from an OS/2 server