Finally, after a week of rumours and fluctuating stock prices, UK-based engineering firm Invensys acquired Baan. Invensys will buy 95 per cent of all Baan shares and will incorporate the company into its newly formed Invensys Software and Systems...
The $266m price tag on CTP does not seem high, added Bramley, but it "reflects a distressed buyer and a somewhat distressed vendor". In a recent Bloor Perspective column appearing on silicon.com, an analyst wrote: "[Novell] continued to go through...
In this snapshot look at a recent key development, Robin Bloor and his team consider which the concept of 'grid computing' and an IBM initiative However, this project is slightly different in that IBM is hoping to learn a great deal about the...
Grid games? The concept of grid computing has received much attention over recent months, as vendors such as IBM and Sun have attempted to move this new technology out of the academic world into everyday commercial use.
Computing has evolved to the point where current hype surrounds concepts such as grid and virtualisation. These go under the banner 'grid' - essentially, clever software running on each computer that enables the whole bunch to be run as a single...
The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company on Monday to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is...