Stories about: EDS

Expanding Linux adoption beyond key vertical markets is an important driver for Red Hat's growth, which remains steady even as one of its strongest customer sectors, financial services, is getting hit hard by the U.S. crisis, the company's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, said Tuesday.

HP is to buy EDS, CBS is to buy CNET, Carl Ichan launches a proxy fight for Yahoo, Microsoft limits computing power for XP, LG introduces a 3G Prada phone and Twitter beats big media on the China quake.

Open source database company, Ingres Corporation, has announced four new appointments to its local team increasing its headcount to 32 staff spread across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland.

The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.

For economic reasons, most of the components created for the One Laptop Per Child project's US$100 notebook computer are innovations on tried-and-true tech, not state-of-the-art. That is, except for one aspect of the device: how the laptop generates and stores power.

Fujitsu last week introduced two Itanium-based servers designed to offer mainframe-class features to Windows and Linux users.

Continental Airlines encountered a bit of turbulence last year when it decided to shift the ticket-reissue application it had built for Unix-based servers to a full open-source software stack with a 64-bit database server.

Fujitsu has unveiled two new servers designed to bring mainframe-class features to Windows and Linux users. More than two years in development, the systems -- called the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440 -- represent Fujitsu's first attempt at building high-end systems using Intel's Itanium 2 microprocessor.

Electronic Data Systems predicts large customers will save 20 percent over the life of a contract for if they buy into its new Agility Alliance.

Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart.

IT infrastructure services giant EDS has drawn a line in the sand over the way it intends to drum up new infrastructure business, with selective sourcing, open source and IBM definitely not part of the equation.