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Intel Debuts Prestonia Pentium 4 Xeons, Plumas Chipset
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Intel
last week announced a new Pentium 4 Xeon processor
and associated chipset that it hopes will help push
the Wintel and Lintel platforms even deeper into the
entry server market space than Intel-based machines
already are. The new Pentium 4 Xeon chips, code-named
"Prestonia," and the E7500 chipset, code-named
"Plumas," mark Intel's re-entry into the mainstream
server chipset business after all but advocating that
position to rivals such as the ServerWorks unit of Broadcom.
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HP Debuts zx1 Chipset for McKinley Itaniums
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Hewlett-Packard, not
wanting to be left out as one of the major vendors
who will be shipping advanced chipsets to support the
64-bit Itanium processors from Intel, is beginning
to divulge information about a forthcoming chipset
for workstations and for entry and midrange servers
based on the next-generation "McKinley" Itanium
chips, which are due around the middle of this year.
The HP chipset, code-named "Pluto" and marketed under
the name zx1, will be one of the first available for
the McKinleys.
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System Integrators Get to Peek at Windows Source Code
by Kristin Palitza
Microsoft is
broadening its initiative to share the source code of
its Windows operating system. Now systems integrators
will be able to take a look inside Windows. Microsoft
hopes the move will protect itself from competition
from open source developers and their Linux operating
system. Open source rapidly gained popularity over
the past year, particularly among enterprises
interested in seeing the code behind the products
they use. Microsoft started its Shared Source
Initiative (SSI) last May to show the public it is
willing to open up.
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EC Proposes Patent Rules to Avoid Stifling Open Source
by Kristin Palitza
The European Commission has proposed new rules for
patents on software inventions that go against
"oppressive" open source development. Winning a
patent in the European Union (EU) is and will be
harder than in the United States under these rules,
but creating open source technology might get even
more difficult. The objective of the directive is to
achieve the "right balance between making patents
available where appropriate in order to reward and
encourage innovation, while avoiding stifling
competition and open source development," the
Commission said.
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David Lindows Strikes Back against Goliath Microsoft
by Kristin Palitza
Lindows.com has
released a copy of its main opposition paper against
the pending trademark lawsuit filed by Microsoft. In the
opposition paper--which reads like David's battle
plan against the giant Goliath--the start-up plans to
attack Microsoft's claim for trademark on the Windows
name. Two months after Lindows launched its company
and unveiled its software roadmap last October,
Microsoft sued the start-up to prevent it from using
the terms "LindowsOS" and "Lindows.com."
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Be Sues Microsoft for "Destruction of its Business"
by Kristin Palitza
Failed operating systems developer Be has filed
a lawsuit against Microsoft
claiming the company destroyed its business through
anticompetitive practices. The suit, filed with the
U.S. District Court in San Francisco, accuses
Microsoft of "the destruction of its [Be's] business
as a direct result of illegal and anticompetitive
practices. Microsoft has long held and willfully
maintained monopoly in the worldwide market for Intel-compatible PC
operating systems."
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Sun Attacks Windows NT Base with Cobalt Appliances
by Sinéad Carew
Sun
Microsystems last week began a campaign to lure
Microsoft's
customers into its camp by dangling discounts on
Cobalt appliances at stranded Windows NT 4.0 users.
The Microsoft archrival hopes that NT security and
reliability problems have upset enough customers into
looking for an alternative. Sun is offering NT 4.0
customers discounts to its Cobalt RaQ and Cobalt Qube
Linux appliances until the end of June. The move
follows Microsoft's announcement last December that
it is winding down Windows NT Server 4.0.
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SSB Takes a Closer Look at IBM's Server Sales for 2001
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Analysts at Salomon
Smith Barney reckon that three of IBM's four major server
lines saw contracted sales last year. Sales of
zSeries mainframes were up for the first time in more
than a decade, thanks to IBM having a monopoly in
mainframe hardware for the first time in three
decades. Sales of xSeries Intel-based servers
were down because of an intense price war in this
part of the market. iSeries and pSeries midrange
servers declined as well, each for their own
reasons.
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