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Red Hat Advanced Server Takes on Unix, Microsoft Advanced Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Red Hat
announced the Advanced Server edition of its commercial
Linux distribution just before press time last week.
Advanced Server is aimed squarely at two targets. The first
is, of course, Microsoft's
midrange Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The second target
is Unix customers who want to use Linux, which runs on
cheaper iron, but do not want to deal with weekly patches
to the OS, or with the persistent scalability limitations
of Linux 2.4.
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Microsoft, Unisys Campaign Fights Unix with Allied Datacenter Server-ES7000
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Everybody makes goofs, gaffs, and pratfalls in business,
and Unisys
and Microsoft
are no exceptions. In launching a $25 million marketing
campaign against Unix, dubbed "We Have The Way Out,"
Unisys and Microsoft forgot to make sure that the Web
site for the campaign was running Windows. It was running
FreeBSD, a Unix variant, and when the story broke on April
Fools' Day, there was much giggling.
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Sun's McNealy Jabs at Microsoft While Opening Up Java a Bit More
by Dan Burger
The often flamboyant and entertaining Scott McNealy,
chairman and CEO of Sun
Microsystems, took on the tone of President Bush at
the JavaOne conference in San Francisco last week. McNealy's
axis of evil is clearly defined as
Microsoft
and its proprietary .NET strategy. In his role as leader of
the free world--as represented by Java--McNealy wanted his
captive audience of Java developers to know he was counting
on them to back the open-source community in what is
essentially a battle of good versus evil.
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SilverStream Tackles New WSFL Spec
by Alex Woodie
SilverStream, one
of the vendors of Web application servers and J2EE
development tools trying to make a go of it against
formidable competition from IBM and BEA Systems, announced the
general availability of new software last week. Leading a
gaggle of new product releases in SilverStream's lineup
is eXtend Composer 3.5, which features a new
business-process-manager module for integrating existing
business logic into new e-business applications, and
support for the new Web Services Flow Language.
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IDION Takeover May Be Tough for DataMirror
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Midrange high-availability and data-integration software
vendor DataMirror's hostile
takeover of rival Vision
Solutions, which is owned by South African company
IDION
Technology Holdings, is perhaps a more complex deal
than DataMirror has bargained for. As we reported last week in The Four Hundred newsletter
, DataMirror offered to pay $6.2 million in cash to
acquire IDION, but the company is already worth
substantially more than that since the takeover offer was
announced--apparently somewhat prematurely--on March 18.
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As I See It: Manipulating Money
by Victor Rozek
Quantum computing is based on subatomic particles called
qubits, which have a very unusual aptitude. Qubits are
able to spin clockwise and counterclockwise at the same
time. But only if they are not being observed. In that
regard, qubits are like corporations, which also exhibit
paradoxical behavior. On the one hand they want to
appear profitable, to attract and keep investors; on the
other, they must also appear unprofitable, to limit tax
liability. Such alchemy is best conducted when no one is
watching.
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Managing Editor
Mari Barrett
Conributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Sinéad Carew
Joe Hertvik
Kristin Palitza
Alex Woodie
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