Brace Yourself: Major Intel Architectural Shifts Ahead
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is the job of the chief technology officers at the major IT companies to be enthusiastic about technology for its own sake (they are nerds, after all) and for how it can shape our daily lives. But behind the scenes, CTOs also have to be practical about the limits of various technologies and then pick those that their companies will use to build the future products that we buy as consumers or businesses. If they choose wrongly, their companies will suffer. READ MORE >

Microsoft Delays Future Versions of SQL Server, Visual Studio
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Microsoft has decided that future versions of its SQL Server relational database and its Visual Studio application development tools need to be cooked a little longer, and says it will delay launching these two products for about six months. This will likely not impact the appeal of the Windows server market to corporate customers, but it does change the feature sets that customers and partners on the leading edge of Microsoft technology will be able to use in the short term. READ MORE >

Stratus Debuts First Fault-Tolerant Linux Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Fault tolerant server maker Stratus Technologies today announced the first in what it says will be a full line of Linux-based machines that bring the resilience it created for high-end Unix machines in the 1990s and ported to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 in the past several years to its own variant of the open source Linux 2.4 operating system running on Intel's 32-bit Xeon DP processors. READ MORE >

IBM Chases Entry Customers with xSeries 206, 306
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM has announced its latest foray into the fiercely competitive entry X86 server market with two new uniprocessors, one of which Big Blue hopes to sell for $499. While uniprocessor machines are generally not flashy, these machines account for a large number of shipments each quarter and they help all server makers establish relationships (often good, sometimes bad) with small customers who might survive their early years to become real midrange shops that spend big bucks on computers. Getting and retaining those small shops is therefore pretty important. READ MORE >

As I See It: The Path of Service
by Victor Rozek

There are two times in your life when you are most likely to be called to the path of service: when you are very young and still believe you can save the world, and toward the end of your career, when you have enjoyed the world's bounty and want to give something back. The first group is inspired by optimism and hope, the second by gratitude and an understanding of the universal value of reciprocity--worthy motivations in a world often lacking noble virtues. READ MORE >

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