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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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Microsoft and Intel Report Quarterly Gains
by Dan Burger
Microsoft and Intel last week reported quarterly gains on the financial front, with Intel exceeding analysts' predictions and Microsoft falling short of expectations. Dogged by continuing security issues that kept customers too distracted to buy, Microsoft still pushed up revenues in its first fiscal quarter of 2004 by 6 percent (thanks mostly to consumer, not corporate, spending). Intel attributed its sales growth to demand in Russia, China, and India. READ MORE >
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IBM Boosts Power4+ for Entry pSeries 615 Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM will begin delivering its 1.45 GHz Power4+ processors in its entry pSeries 615 servers this week. According to sources, IBM has been having minor yield issues with the Power4+ processors, which is why the company only announced the pSeries 615 machines with the 1.2 GHz version of the Power4+ chips back at the end of May. IBM also has rolled out Ultra320 SCSI peripherals, its "Federation" system interconnect switches, and the Linux-on-Power implementation of its clustering software. READ MORE >
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SuSE Launches Openexchange 4.1, Partners with BMC, Veritas
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Commercial Linux distributor SuSE will begin shipping the next release of its Openexchange Server groupware and messaging programs. Openexchange is based on SuSE's variant of the Linux 2.4 operating system, with the Postfix e-mail server and an integrated groupware, forum, and knowledge-management system integrated as a single program. READ MORE >
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IBM Partners with Adobe for the Future of Forms
by Alex Woodie
IBM has seen the future of forms processing, and it's an Adobe PDF (or portable document format) form. The two companies extended their partnership last week with a new agreement to further integrate Adobe's forms software with IBM's middleware stack, beginning with DB2 Content Manager, an enterprise-strength imaging and content-indexing system, and a similar offering specifically for SAP environments. But the companies' roadmap calls for even more integration and use of Adobe software with IBM's WebSphere products. READ MORE >
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Mad Dog 21/21: Script Kitties
by Hesh Wiener
Every once in a while, professionals who work in risky situations are overtaken by the risks. Watching such people operate can be thrilling; something terrible might happen. Yet if that bad thing actually happens, the audience might not be thrilled at all. It's the risk that's invigorating, not the misfortune of the risk-taker. The best thing that can happen once the worst thing happens is that other professional daredevils might become a bit more cautious. Human nature and history, however, suggest that people don't learn from others' experience, nor from their own. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More
Gartner: IT Spending Should Bloom in 2006, Increase Moderately in '04, '05 . . . Microsoft Touts the Future at Professional Developers Conference 2003 . . . Developers Say Linux is Ready for Prime Time, More Secure than Windows . . . SuperMicro Debuts Itanium 2 Servers in 1U and 2U Form Factors . . . MySQL Buys Alzato for Database Clustering . . . IDC: Business Intelligence a Bright Spot in North American IT Spending . . . Open Text Hunts for More Content Management Companies as Gauss Acquisition Clears . . . 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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