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Bill Gates Takes the Wraps Off Visual Studio.NET
by Sinéad Carew
Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft's
development tool Visual Studio.NET before about 4,000 developers at its
VSLive conference in San Francisco last week. "Today is a very big day for
us," Gates said. He added more weight to the occasion by implying the
Visual Studio commercial launch is comparable to the introduction of the
graphical user interface in the late 1980s and the and the arrival of the
Internet in the mid-1990s.
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Microsoft Delivers Key Piece of JUMP to .NET Java to C# Conversion Tool
by Howard F. Arner, Jr.
Microsoft has announced
availability of the Beta 1 release of Java Language Conversion Assistant,
as part of its Java User Migration Path to Microsoft .NET strategy. JLCA
converts Java code to C# on the .NET Framework. The tool was written by
ArtinSoft, a company
that specializes in conversion technologies, and is available as a free
download from Microsoft's Web site.
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IBM Delivers xSeries Servers Using MXT Memory Compression
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
After a two-year collaboration between IBM
the ServerWorks chipset division of chipmaker
Broadcom, the two companies have
delivered on a promised chipset that exploits IBM's Memory Expansion Technology (MXT)
data compression algorithm. MXT was created by IBM's Research Division. Big Blue started
hinting that MXT, which allows servers to have a virtual memory that is double the
physical capacity of the memory chips in those servers, might come to market in late
2001 or early 2002, in an announcement the two companies made in June 2000.
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Dell Announces Two New Wintel/Lintel Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Dell took the wraps off two new
Intel-based servers this week.
IBM got to show off the new MXT SystemI/O
chipset it co-developed with chip maker
Broadcom's ServerWorks unit last week,
and Dell is getting to show off the "Grand Champion" chipset from ServerWorks in its
new PowerEdge 4600 this week. The Grand Champion GC-HE chipset is designed to support
Intel's Pentium 4 Xeon processors, and will probably be the most popular chipset for
those chips. Dell also announced a new Pentium III server, the PowerEdge 1650.
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HP Slashes Intel Server Prices to Fight in Price War
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
There is a price war going on in the Intel-based server market, and Hewlett-Packard, like other vendors, has to do everything it can to chop costs in its Wintel and Lintel server lines, to remain competitive with the likes of Dell, Compaq, and IBM. So last week, HP slashed prices on certain models in its Intel server line by as much as 34 percent.
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Red Hat Might Open Up Proprietary ArsDigita Tools or Throw Them Out
by Kristin Palitza
Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat
has acquired the remaining assets of strained open source Internet tools provider
ArsDigita, and said it might make
the proprietary Web development tools of ArsDigita's software suite either open
source or it will throw them out.
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Google Brings Its Search Engine Behind the Firewall--Based on Linux
by Kristin Palitza
Google has launched "Google in a box,"
a device to bring the company's Internet search engine behind the corporate firewall.
The pre-integrated device combines software and
Intel-based hardware running Linux.
Google kept secret which Linux manufacturers are part of the deal.
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SEAGULL to Port Legacy Access Products to Linux
by Joe Hertvik
At IBM PartnerWorld show this week, SEAGULL
announced that its Transidiom, J Walk, and WinJa programs will now run on Linux on
IBM mainframe, iSeries, and
Intel-based platforms. The Linux server
components for these products are currently available only to selected customers; general
availability is scheduled for this spring and summer.
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Conributing Editors:
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Sinéad Carew
Joe Hertvik
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