Micro Focus has paid $534m (£320m) for services and Java-based Net product specialist, Intersolv. Traditionally a supplier of mainframe emulator software for PCs, Micro Focus denied its current products would be dropped in favour of Intersolv's.
Micro Focus - a US-based software developer which acquired Intersolv last June - has announced plans to change its name to Merant. Harry Dhaliwal, financial controller at Micro Focus UK, said a name change has always been in the pipeline.
Motorola and Sun Microsystems have announced a $1bn deal to provide open standard IP (Internet Protocol)-based wireless technology. The ten year non-exclusive deal allows Motorola to produce network servers, base station controllers and base...
A press release from the DTI mentions "the next generation of 'IT' girls" and a focus "firmly on micro-chips not micro-skirts". When it comes to matters of trade and industry the UK government often scores a goal only to let one in within minutes...
Colin Robertson agreed, claiming he used a variant of the original BBC Micro right up until 1996, when - and here's one in the eye for those who were critical of its compatibility - he successfully transferred all his Beebug Masterfile records to...
There are other vendors - such as Checkpoint, Fortinet, ServGate, Trend Micro and the recently merged Secure Computing/Cyber Guard - which have appliances that provide 'unified threat management' for all types of traffic.