HP Firing on All Cylinders in the Fiscal First Quarter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Somewhere, in the wintry confines of Westchester County, New York, there are a whole lot of executives at IBM who must be asking perplexing questions. Why did we get out of the printer business that is dominated by Hewlett-Packard and that gives the company so much profit? Why did we sell the PC business? Why didn't we buy Compaq to become the market leader in X86 and now X64 servers? How did HP get to be bigger than Big Blue in the IT space? READ MORE >

SCO Brought Back from the Dead by Middle East Money
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It was a happy Valentine's Day for The SCO Group last week. With its key Unix guru having just left the company, a dwindling revenue stream for its OpenServer and UnixWare products, three big lawsuits with uncertain outcomes and the consequent mounting legal bills, and operations from within the confines of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, someone has nonetheless decided to plunk down $100 million to take the just barely publicly held Unix software maker private and give it yet another new lease on life. READ MORE >

Surf's Up for Web-Based Organized Crime, IBM X-Force Says
by Alex Woodie

If you've noticed that attempts to steal your identity and your money on the Web have grown more sophisticated in recent months, you're not alone. In its analysis of thousands of attacks, IBM's X-Force security group confirmed that the underground criminal economy made a lot of headway last year in its quest to exploit software and human vulnerabilities in its pursuit of ill-gotten gains off the Net. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: Recovering Lost Prophets
by Hesh Wiener

If you ask computer professionals who they thought were the leaders in data storage, chances are you'll hear names like IBM, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliances, and Hitachi. If you asked these storage companies, you might get a different list that included some outfits that were largely unknown in the end user world. But end users probably don't have to worry that they will miss out on some important new vendors. The Storage Establishment is buying up many of the emerging suppliers. This high-profile interest in the new crop of vendors makes all the contenders a lot more visible. READ MORE >