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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 HP
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Sponsored By
 UNISYS/MICROSOFT
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IBM Offers Low Rates, Deferred Payments for IT Financing
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
With a tight economy, and companies unwilling to spend on IT except where absolutely necessary, and interest rates continuing to fall asymptotically to zero, IBM has to do something to help push its products. Offering attractive financing terms is just about the best option Big Blue has in its bag of tricks. That's why IBM has recently introduced a low-rate financing deal and a deferred-payment deal. READ MORE >
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HP Signs OEM, Support Deal With SuSE for Linux
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Back in March, Hewlett-Packard inked a deeper alliance with commercial Linux distributor Red Hat, which is the dominant supplier of Linux licenses and support in North America. That alliance gave HP the ability of pre-installing the enterprise versions of its Red Hat Linux distributions on Intel-based HP ProLiant servers and also made HP the single point of contact for technical support. HP announced that it has signed a similar alliance with SuSE, which is the clear number two vendor in the Linux market in general and leads in Europe in particular. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 BROOKS INTERNET SOFTWARE
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· Character Output Reduction (COR)
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www.brooksnet.com.
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Unisys Puts Sun's JVM On Its ES7000 Wintel Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Microsoft may be allergic to Java, but an increasing number of its key partners have recently shown that if Big Bill doesn't want to put Java on its Windows machines, then they are happy to do it for their customers to save them the hassle. Unisys announced on Monday that the company will make a Java Virtual Machine available for its ES7000 Intel-based mainframes, which by and large run Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. READ MORE >
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VMware Gets Into Utility Computing with Control Center
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
VMware is best known for its virtual machine partitioning software, which allows a Windows or Linux workstation or server to be carved up into slices, fitted with virtual 32-bit X86 machines, and run multiple and incompatible operating systems within those partitions. Now, the company is taking its technology one step further with a new product called Control Center, which will allow active partitions with live applications to be passed around a network from machine to machine. 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.
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For more information, visit www.acucorp.com
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Sponsored By
 WINTERNALS SOFTWARE
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IBM Regains Top Spot on TPC-C Test With Power4+
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Intel has announced the new "Madison" Itanium 2 processors. In many of the presentations that Intel and its OEM partners used in announcing their intentions for the latest of its 64-bit processors, IBM's Power4+ line of pSeries RISC/Unix servers were the touchstone against which Madison was measured. IBM didn't like this, and it did something about it. READ MORE >
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As I See It: Fanning the Flame
by Victor Rozek
After writing the article on burnout a few weeks ago, several readers requested additional information on what managers and team leaders can do to minimize the effects of burnout on their organizations. Readers confirmed what the research cited in my article suggests: that burnout is widespread and is getting worse. READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. 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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