Fujitsu has served up a new take on the tablet computer. Fujitsu PC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, on Monday became the first company to offer both a traditional tablet computer and a convertible notebook PC, each loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system software.
Fujitsu designed the new LifeBook T3000 convertible laptop to offer the best of its Stylistic line of tablets and its LifeBook notebooks, based on requests from customers in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, said Paul Moore, director of product marketing for Fujitsu PC.
Content management, supply chain and customer management solutions provider TXT e-solutions has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Business Solutions to distribute the company's software.
Microsoft will now integrate TXT e-solutions' Demand Planning software into its own suite of business applications. Microsoft will then distribute the software internationally on a non-exclusive basis through its partner and reseller network.
TXT e-solutions will receive licence royalties for each sale and provide paid services to Microsoft partners and resellers.
Results of Microsoft-commissioned study - part of its Redmond's anti-Linux campaign - expected to be made public Tuesday.
Martin Taylor, Microsoft's recently appointed Linux point man, isn't wasting any time making good on his promise to use third-party analyst studies to make his case that Windows provides customers with more value than Linux.
On Tuesday, Forrester Research's Giga Information Group unit is expected to release the results of a study commissioned by Microsoft finding that applications developed and deployed on Windows are cheaper to develop, deploy and maintain than those developed on J2EE/Linux platforms.
Microsoft this week put the final piece of the Office 2003 pricing in place by quietly publishing licensing costs to enterprises for the updated productivity suite, which will officially launch on Oct. 21.
The licensing price list, obtained by TechWeb from a Microsoft partner, and available on the Microsoft for Partners Web site, details costs of Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition, Office Standard Edition 2003, and Office Small Business Edition 2003 under a variety of its licensing programs.
Under Microsoft's Open Business program--the benchmark typically used to compare prices--Office Professional Enterprise Edition will cost $457 at the "NL," or "no level" price. This is the minimum discount level in Microsoft's volume-pricing structure; customers who purchase larger volumes, or buy under other programs, can get bigger discounts.
In December 1998, Larry Ellison was steering his maxi-yacht, Sayonara, when it was caught in a fierce, unexpected storm. Sayonara would win the Sydney-to-Hobart race off the coast of Australia that year, but not with Ellison at the helm.
As the storm raged about him, claiming the lives of six sailors on other boats, the Oracle chief executive relinquished the wheel to a professional sailor.
"I couldn't handle it," he later explained. "There were no stars; I didn't know what to steer by. I had to turn the wheel over (to someone else). You discover your own limits."
You could say that Ellison finds himself in a similar position today, metaphorically speaking. Still at the helm of the company he founded almost a quarter-century ago, the flamboyant CEO faces heavy turbulence in Oracle's two primary lines of business.
Sometimes it seems like everyone is after Microsoft, and they can't catch a break. Although, it is not the case. To my own surprise, there is plenty of bad stuff that happens to Microsoft's competitors everyday, and you can find even more crap on Oracle, Sun, AOL and the rest of losers in the "The Dark Side" section (here, and here). Not to mention all the Microsoft success stories in the "Winning The Battle" section (here and here).
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Just goes to prove that this "antitrust lawsuit" was a sham (as all the others), and never about making a difference in the market. Be saw finical $$$ gains in the lawsuit, noting more. BE was and still is irrelevant to the industry. AOL, Be, Immersion, who's next to settle, $un?
Microsoft will pay Be more than $23 million after attorneys' fees to settle an antitrust lawsuit that Be filed against it in February 2002, the companies announced Friday. Microsoft admitted no wrongdoing in the mediated settlement, in which all other terms remained confidential, the companies said in a statement. The case is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, in Baltimore.
Be emerged as a developer of operating system software in 1997. The company sold its operating system and most of its assets to Palm in 2001.
A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an alternative operating system to Microsoft's Windows software would raise concerns over fair competition, the world's No. 1 software maker said on Friday.
"We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"Governments should not be in the position to decide who the winners are," Robertson said.
Robertson said that Microsoft had a "direct and open line of communication" with Japan's government over software security, standards and development.
SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3 billion for allegedly moving Unix code into Linux, may also have Silicon Graphics in its crosshairs. SCO on Friday declined to comment on future legal action, but Chris Sontag, the senior vice president in charge of SCO's effort to derive more revenue from its Unix intellectual property, has said two things that suggest SGI is a likely target.
First, Sontag said in June that SCO is contemplating legal action against another major North American hardware maker besides IBM. Second, in an August presentation at which SCO detailed some of its complaints about Linux code, Sontag described SGI file system software called XFS in a list of "examples of significant infringing derivative works" contributed to versions 2.4 or 2.5 of the heart, or kernel, of Linux.
Microsoft Wednesday plans to unveil its widely-anticipated Windows Storage Server 2003 at the Storage Decisions 2003 conference in Chicago. Sources familiar with the Redmond, Wash. software maker's plans said HP, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, IBM and others are supporting the launch of the company's new network-attached (NAS) storage product, which is a dedicated file server operating system geared to lower the cost of networked storage for customers.
NAS is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to the department computer that is serving applications to a network's workstation users.