HP Opens Up the HP-UX Roadmap
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If Hewlett-Packard has been a little skittish about talking about its roadmap for its HP-UX Unix variant in recent years, that has had nothing to do with its commitment to the platform. HP's shyness over the years, however, has had everything to do with the difficulties that HP had coping with two distinct RISC/Unix platforms in the wake of the Compaq merger five years ago. That's water under the bridge now, and with rival Sun Microsystems hogging all the Unix press with its Solaris 10 product and OpenSolaris project, HP is ready to talk about its plans for HP-UX. READ MORE >

Sun-HP Unix Merger: Beware of Olive Branches Shaped Like Baseball Bats
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the great things about the Unix business over the years is that it has had a wide variety of players. No two companies represent the polar opposites of this business more than do Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. One is the quiet vendor, creating great technology and slowly (over 34 years) building up a vast commercial server customer base, including proprietary and then Unix machines; the latter has only been in the commercial server racket since 1991 (15 years) and shoots off its mouth incessantly about how great its products are--often with good reason. READ MORE >

Middleware Sales Continue to Grow in 2005, IBM Still the King
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The analysts at Gartner say that the market for application integration and middleware software is experiencing a lot of upheavals, with big architecture changes and lots of vendors entering and leaving the market, but that despite all that turmoil, the market managed to grow by 7.1 percent to reach a total of $8.5 billion in sales. READ MORE >

As I See It: Net Reality
by Victor Rozek

There is a tug-of-war going on between giants. On one end of the rope, telephone and cable companies like AT&T and Comcast; on the other, software and search engine providers like Microsoft and Google. Both ends of the rope are manned by armies of lobbyists with pockets laden with cash. The venue is Congress; the issue is whether to maintain or dismantle what is popularly known as "net neutrality." The prize is control of the Internet. READ MORE >