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Breaking News: Microsoft to Buy Navision?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Just as this newsletter was going to press last night, a
story surfaced in the Financial Times of London
that Microsoft was getting
ready to acquire European application software vendor Navision
for $1.2 billion. Such an acquisition, if it does indeed
take place, would be Microsoft's second big application
software buy, after the $1 billion acquisition of Great
Plains Software at the end of 2000. Microsoft would not
confirm the rumor, and all Navision would say that it is
entertaining offers.
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IBM Talks Up Xcalibur Blade Server Strategy
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Like most of the server vendors who are threatened by the
advent of blade computing, IBM was taken a little off
guard by the explosion of demand for ultradense
rack-mounted servers even as the dot-com bubble was
bursting. It seems that corporations, coping with high
system management costs and server sprawl, are looking
for the modular, dense server designs that were once
thought only necessary for dot-coms and service
providers. That is what IBM's BladeCenter servers,
code-named "Xcalibur," are all about.
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Server Market Stabilizes In Q1, Says Gartner
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The analysts at market researcher Gartner's Dataquest
unit think that the server market may have finally
stabilized, with the possible exception of Hewlett-Packard, which has
seen its server shipments stall as customers and
resellers contemplated and considered the impact of the
HP merger with Compaq . HP server
shipments in the United States plummeted by 31.5 percent
and fell by 13.3 percent on a worldwide basis in the
first quarter of 2002.
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Intel and AMD Baptize New 64-Bit Processors
by Alex Woodie
Intel and
AMD last week
gave proper names to the 64-bit processors they plan to
ship later this year and early next year. Intel's
development of its second generation 64-bit processor has
gone by the code name "McKinley," but when the processor
becomes available later this year, it will be known as
Itanium 2. And AMD's 64-bit development effort, which has
been codenamed "Hammer," will spawn a processor for use
in multiprocessor servers called Opteron.
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BCD to Offer Java Deployment Option with WebSmart
by Alex Woodie
It's becoming a big, bad Java world, and Business Computer
Design Int'l is right there with it. BCD's ProGen
WebSmart development environment has helped programmers
to create dynamic Web applications that run as ILE
RPG-based CGI programs on AS/400 and iSeries servers. Now
BCD is adding Java-generation capabilities to WebSmart,
which will allow developers to take the same WebSmart
applications they created as CGI scripts for OS/400 and
deploy them with Java to practically any platform,
including Windows and Linux servers.
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Managing Editor
Mari Barrett
Conributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Sinéad Carew
Joe Hertvik
Kristin Palitza
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