Thin client grows in Asia

The thin client market in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan, or APJ region, has recorded strong year-on-year growth, says Click Press.

The market grew from 171 000 units in 2004 to 280 000 units in 2005, representing a 64% expansion.

The growth has been fuelled by a strong vendor push across the countries in the region, as well as growing acceptance of the thin client concept, as vendor presence increases across APJ.

Last Thursday, when stock markets around the world fell, VMware calmly upped the price range on in its initial public offering, says NY Times.

The offering, scheduled for this week, is expected to be the largest technology IPO since Google went public in 2004.

VMware plans to sell 33 million shares at $27 to $29 each, the company said in a regulatory filing, or $4 higher than it projected in July. The sale will raise as much as $1.1 billion.

IBM says it plans to release blade servers with integrated software for building data warehouses on a grid-computing environment in October, reports Intelligent Enterprise.

The Information Server Blade, unveiled at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, comprises IBM's blade hardware and the Information Server data integration software platform.

The new product is designed for data integration projects that include data warehousing for business intelligence.