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Judge Throws Out Hewlett Case, So HP Eats Compaq
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Delaware Chancery court judge hearing the suit brought
by Walter Hewlett against the upper management of Hewlett-Packard
threw the case out of court last week, humiliating Hewlett
and leaving the path open for HP to proceed with its $19
billion acquisition of rival Compaq, which ceased to
exist as a separate company just as we went to press. The
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the stock symbol HPQ, an amalgam of HWP and CPQ, the two
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Navision Confirms and Endorses $1.3 Billion Microsoft Buyout
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The board of directors of Navision, the Danish
application software vendor that has one of the most
popular software suites in Europe and one of the largest
installed bases in the world, has confirmed that it has
indeed been entertaining a takeover offer from Microsoft.
Not only that, the board says that it approves of the $1.3
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Red Hat to Deliver Linux 7.3 Release on May 15
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Only a few weeks after launching the enterprise edition of
its Linux 7.2 software, Red Hat will next week
rolled out a revamped Linux 7.3 edition for workstations
and servers. The Red Hat 7.3 release, which is based on the
Linux 2.4.18 kernel, is aimed at workstation and print,
file, and Web server users. The new release has
improvements in the graphical user interface, firewall, and
Web serving features, and also includes video conferencing
software and extended support for students and educators
who are influential in the uptake of Linux.
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IDC Says Linux Has Hurdles to Jump to Appease VARs
by Alex Woodie
Linux might be the wave of the future for many commercial
IT workloads. But for now, the open source operating system
has some maturing to do, especially when it comes to how
vendors and Linux distributors push Linux solutions through
the sales channel. That's the word coming out of
Framingham, Massachusetts, where analysts at International Data Corp this
week issued a new report about the uptake of Linux in the
value-added reseller (VAR) community called "Linux: A
Supplier's Guide to Reseller Views."
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Inventive Designers to Introduce X-Platform Document-Processing Tool
by Dan Burger
Companies possessing documents on various platforms
supporting the Java 2.3.1 environment--which includes
Windows 2000, Linux, Unix, OS/400, and Mac OS--will soon be
able to consolidate and standardize their workflow within
one architectural infrastructure. In June, Inventive
Designers will start shipping Scriptura, a
platform-independent document-processing tool designed to
produce customized documents and reports that can be
printed by any network printer, Web enabled, or output to
PDF format for e-mail distribution.
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Mari Barrett
Conributing Editors:
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Sinéad Carew
Joe Hertvik
Kristin Palitza
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