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In This Issue
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Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week
Sponsored By
 HEWLETT-PACKARD
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DEMAND MORE...
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Demand an alternative to the way IT and IT services have been purchased, implemented and operated.
Demand accountability, rather than account control, from your IT partner.
Demand HP
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Sponsored By
 UNISYS/MICROSOFT
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JOIN THE ESCAPE FROM UNIX.
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Featuring the Unisys ES7000 family of servers running new Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, the Windows Data Center is today's Proven alternative to UNIX. It's a solution that brings revolutionary performance and low-cost standardization to the enterprise.
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Server Market Share Size Definitely Matters for IBM and HP
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the biggest server revenue market share of them all? Well, that depends on who you ask, and when you ask them. As the fairy tale seems to imply, there are two mirrors. The flacks at IBM and Hewlett-Packard have had an exciting couple of days as first International Data Corp and then Gartner's Dataquest unit revealed their estimates for revenue market share in the first quarter of 2003. Dataquest has also revised upward some sales statistics for HP's sales in 2001, which made the drop in 2002 in the wake of the Compaq merger seem a lot more dramatic. READ MORE >
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Invensys Sells Baan to SSA GT, Keeps Marcam Unit
by Alex Woodie
Rumors that the owners of SSA Global Technologies are buying Baan have turned out to be true. Baan, the struggling Dutch subsidiary of British electronics giant Invensys, has agreed to a $135 million sale of the company to Cerebrus Group and General Atlantic Partners, the two investment firms that own SSA GT and fund its growth. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 WINTERNALS SOFTWARE
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HP, VMware Forge Closer Ties to Push Server Virtualization
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Server maker Hewlett-Packard and virtual machine partitioning software maker VMware today announced they have significantly expanded their partnership. Under the new deal, HP will sell VMware's Workstation, GSX Server, and ESX Server virtualization products on its own Intel-based PCs, workstations and servers. HP will also back the product with its worldwide services organization. READ MORE >
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The Midrange Gets a New Storage Vendor
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
It's not every day that a new company enters the midrange hardware market to take on IBM across its own eServer product line, but this week the midrange gets a new storage vendor, Global Storage Technologies. GST is headed by David Breisacher, founder of BCC Technologies, a privately held disk and tape subsystem maker for the iSeries and AS/400 that was acquired by venture capitalists earlier this year and renamed as eStorage. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 ACUCORP
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Acucorp is a leading developer of application extension solutions running on over 600 platforms such as Linux.
These extend5 solutions include a powerful ANSI COBOL compiler, an integrated development environment, web deployment technology, seamless interfaces to RDBMS, COBOL-based GUI development, distributed processing and client/server technology.
For more information, visit www.acucorp.com
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Sponsored By
 BROOKS INTERNET SOFTWARE
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Mainframe to PC and Windows TCP/IP Network Printing Solutions
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· Broadcast Printing
· Fail-over Printing
· Page Range Printing
· Printer Finishing Options
· Archiving Data (Print to File)
· Character Output Reduction (COR)
Free Fully Functional Trial at
www.brooksnet.com.
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Shaking IT Up: Consultant or Employee? That Is the Question
by Kevin Vandever
Life is full of choices. Stop for a moment and think about how many decisions you've made since you woke up this morning. First, you probably pondered whether you should even get out of bed. After that tough decision was made, you might have anguished over what to wear, what to eat. Your morning commute stress-tests your brain and glands: Should you stop or speed up at the yellow light? Which radio station should you listen to? Should you pull that son-of-a-gun over in front of you who just cut you off, making you spill your café mocha, and teach him a lesson in driving etiquette? READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More
Oracle Launches $5.1 Billion Hostile Takeover for PeopleSoft . . . Microsoft Releases Security Patch for Windows, Internet Explorer . . . Microsoft Debuts Release Candidate 1 for "Titanium" Exchange Server 2003, Pushes Out "Yukon" SQL Server Release . . . HP Debuts Inexpensive Entry NAS for Guild Companiess . . . Linux Goes to the Cats and Dogs for the ASPCA . . . New Book from Bob Tipton Explores Effective IT Leadership . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
More reader feedback on "Rant: Offshoring in the Offing" . . . READ MORE >
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
Victor Rozek, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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