Big Blue has charted a course to revive its position in the PC market by developing software designed to substantially reduce the costs of managing desktops. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

The company plans to try to take some of the cost and irritation out of managing PCs. Businesses pay a monthly fee for each employee, and Big Blue takes care of their tech woes. Michael Kanellos is ...

IBM Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

IBM Monday debuted Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, the company's first desktop virtualization product targeting SMBs. The new software, which allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...

With an eye on the small and medium-sized business market, IBM is working through resellers to roll out a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs US$150 per user annually. Weighing the ...