Stories about: Agilent

I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell.

Symbio Technologies, a New York start-up, wants to tear the guts out of your PC, turn it into a diskless thin client and move the compute power to a server, sort of along the lines of that ClearCube is doing with its PC blades, Sun is offering to do with its Sun Rays and IBM has in mind with its new Java-based Workplace 2 scheme aka Workplace Client Technology.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will fund a four-year program to develop optical interconnect technology for chip-to-chip communications, headed by researchers at IBM and Agilent Technologies, IBM announced Thursday.

The first version of a specification that the Embedded Linux Consortium hopes will aid application interoperability and spur interest in Linux development in the market for built-in systems software was released Wednesday.

MontaVista Software, a privately held developer of embedded Linux software, said Tuesday its revenue doubled in 2002 compared to the previous year.

The first certifications for wireless LAN access points and cards that meet the IEEE802.11a or Wi-Fi5 standard are expected to be issued in October, the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) said at the Networld + Interop Tokyo show last Thursday.

In its first major effort to reinvent itself as a software company, VA Linux Systems Inc. Tuesday unveiled a new version of its collaborative software, SourceForge 3.0 Enterprise Edition, which allows companies to build communities for managing internal development projects.

For years we've described IP telephony as a technology that will reach full bloom RSN (Real Soon Now), but even chasing that vision has proved productive. The first experiments with placing telephone calls over the Internet in the mid-1990s were little more than proofs of concept; now the technology is catching up with the vision.

Hoping to encourage Fortune 500 firms to take on more open-source development projects, VA Linux Systems Inc. on Tuesday debuted a turn-key collaboration system that allows thousands of engineers across an enterprise to work more efficiently and cost-effectively.