By Lora Bentley
Interview with Andy Astor, CEO, open source database vendor, EnterpriseDB. The company recently received a third round of venture funding from investors including IBM.
Question: Not long ago, you announced that IBM joined existing investors for EnterpriseDB’s third round of venture funding. Why did IBM get involved this time?
Astor: IBM does not typically invest [...]

As per the latest release of Greenpeace IT challenge, IBM, Microsoft and Google are chalked out for not doing sufficient to put IT power to work on lowering down greenhouse gas emissions. The main intention of the campaign is to pressure the heads of reckoned IT companies to promote strong climate action in the climate [...]

Swati Bansal
By the end of year 1970, the entire world has seen computer revolution, followed by few signs of green computing by the early 1990’s era. Now companies and businesses are taking benefits from the waves of new and creative ideas and need for more environment friendly products. Since last few years, data centers have [...]

So, Now it is Oracle ! Oracle corporation announcement came in surprise with its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. With this move, Oracle plans to expand its horizon into server and computer hardware market by buying Sun Microsystems Inc, by diving in after IBM’s effort to buy SUN reportedly failed.

Oracle, which has spent [...]

IBM Withdraws Offer For Sun
Almost everyone beleived that Big blue is going to be the owner of SUN (Report). Now that the deal is off, Sun is free to enter negotiations with other parties.
NYT says,
“IBM had a team of 100 lawyers looking over the negotiations, and after their research into all the possible issues that [...]

This could be a good and bad news for many. Big Blue is reportedly eyeing Sun Microsystems to swallow.

This is an obvious move of IBM to consolidate it’s server hardware business. If this happens, then IBM and HP will be top two players in the server market. Even though this move helps IBM in [...]