Sunday, March 6, 2011

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 05/03/2011




IBM fires back at Oracle in middleware fray
IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware. Big Blue released new SPECjEnterprise 2010 benchmarking statistics on Friday that it said "demonstrate how businesses using IBM WebSphere middleware on Power 7 hardware can get the lowest cost for performance in the industry." IBM also claimed that it "has proven 76 percent higher performance than Oracle overall."
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Android smartphones top iPhones, BlackBerrys for first time
Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the United States in the latest Nielsen Co. survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone.
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