Intel Revs Up Itanium Roadmap for 2004 and 2005
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Worried that its 64-bit Itanium roadmap is falling behind competitive RISC processors from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard, Intel last week made some substantial changes to the Itanium roadmap that will see more powerful chips hit the streets earlier than planned. But the larger cache "Madison" Itaniums and dual-core "Montecito" Itaniums that Intel has added to its roadmap will not be available until 2004 and 2005, so don't get too excited. READ MORE >

HP Revamps QuickBlades, Adds Four-Way Server Blade
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hewlett-Packard this week refreshed its ProLiant BL "QuickBlade" line of blade servers, adding faster processors to uniprocessor and two-way blades, as well as adding a new four-way blade that plugs into its existing chassis. HP has beat IBM to market by a few weeks with a four-way blade server, but Egenera has been shipping an exotic blade solution and uniprocessor, two-way, and four-way blade racks, designed with fault tolerance, since last year. READ MORE >

As I See It: Insight and Outlook
by Victor Rozek

I was fretting about the economy. The way things were going, I figured that Santa--the poster boy for retail vitality--might be the first victim of the Space-Based Missile Defense System. Surely the government would never allow a bearded man in exotic clothing, loaded with wrapped packages, to enter the country. And the thought of old Rudolph taking a laser-guided missile up the, ah, nose courtesy of Homeland Security was just too distressing. READ MORE >

But Wait, There's More . . .

Judge Tells Microsoft to Get Windows Java-ized Within 120 Days . . . Microsoft Posts Decent Sales in Second Fiscal Quarter, Pays Dividend . . . IBM Server Sales Down a Smidgen in Q4, xSeries Up 14 Percent . . . IBM, AMD Stand Behind UnitedLinux . . . Hilarious Web Site Measures Relative Strengths of Operating Systems . . . READ MORE >

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