In June, Intel entered a similar agreement with Compaq, where Intel acquired a license for Compaq's Alpha chip, and most of the Alpha engineering team. The group estimated around 100 engineers will be needed to work on technology for Itanium - the...
Slashdot.org, for example, posted comments from some people complaining that the browser doesn't have a spell-check and that it's buggy with Sun Microsystems' programming language, Java. The Mozilla technology has also been used as the foundation...
IBM has acquired software developer Think Dynamics to move its on-demand computing strategy ahead more quickly, Big Blue has said. Think Dynamics' software helps companies control their computing resources by automatically managing assets such as...
HP, meanwhile, relied on TerraSpring software for its Utility Data Center product, and Veritas acquired Jareva Technologies. IBM moved up its schedule by acquiring Think Dynamics; Sun has done similarly through its acquisitions of CenterRun, Pirus...
Zepecki is the former vice president of development for enterprise performance management at PeopleSoft, and had been working to help integrate the technologies acquired by PeopleSoft via its buyout of rival JD Edwards in 2003.
And referring to the recent announcement that billionaire Warren Buffett was donating much of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Phipps pointed out that "Warren Buffet is driving gold - he is creating wealth".