Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended a reseller agreement with JBoss Inc. to include the open-source vendor's entire suite of enterprise middleware. HP last week began reselling and supporting the complete JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) worldwide. HP had previously resold and supported JBoss Application Server. JEMS includes the application server, JBoss Portal and JBoss Cache.

Penguin hires HP nonStop server VP

Pauline Nist, former vice president and general manager of HP's NonStop server division, has joined Penguin Computing Inc. as senior vice president of product development and management. In her new post, Nist is responsible for the systems, clustering and software business lines at the maker of high-availability and high-performance Linux systems.

IBM reports strong earnings, flat sales

IBM reported strong earnings, but sales, excluding those of the PC operations sold to Lenovo Group Ltd. last year, rose only 3 percent during the fourth quarter. Sales missed analyst estimates by about US$1 billion.