HP Announces Entry ProLiant Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, Hewlett-Packard revamped the low-end of its ProLiant server line to add new Intel processor and other technologies and to provide better bang for the buck as it competes against IBM, Dell, and others in the Wintel and Lintel server market. Like products from other server vendors, the theme behind the new ProLiants is doing more with less--meaning more work for less money, something that is in short supply in many IT budgets these days. READ MORE >

BladeCenters Can Be IBM's Fifth Kind of eServer
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

With the announcement yesterday of its "Xcalibur" BladeCenter blade servers, IBM has introduced what could evolve into a new family of products under its eServer umbrella. The eServer line includes xSeries Intel-based servers, its pSeries Unix and iSeries OS/400 RISC-based servers, and its zSeries mainframes. All of these machines have unique architectures, and so can the BladeCenter machines. This is why the BladeCenters are being branded distinctly from the other eServer brands and not just thrown into the xSeries category, even though the initial models use Intel iron. READ MORE >

J.D. Edwards Standardizes on IBM Middleware, Databases
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In a surprising yet completely logical move, J.D. Edwards last week announced that it will solve the integration woes of its current 6,500 customers and the hundreds of future customers it will add in coming months by standardizing absolutely and completely on IBM's middleware and database software for its J.D. Edwards 5 ERP, SCM, and CRM application suite. This marks the first time that a major application vendor has picked a single software stack and endorsed it as its own. READ MORE >

Stampede's TurboGold EE Boosts Domino/Notes Performance
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Stampede Technologies has spent years developing and installing software that speeds up the performance of IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino messaging and groupware software, which known as much for its sluggishness as it is for its elegance. Stampede launched its first Notes accelerator products five years ago, and is keeping ahead of IBM in developing features that make Notes/Domino run faster on a broader number of workloads and jobs with TurboGold Enterprise Edition, which started shipping last week. READ MORE >

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