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In This Issue
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Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week
Guild Companies is taking a vacation on November 26, 2003,
and will resume publishing on Wednesday, December 3.
Sponsored By
 HEWLETT-PACKARD
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Sponsored By
 UNISYS/MICROSOFT
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Sun, AMD Alliance Targets Entry and Guild Companiess
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
As has been widely rumored for months, Sun Microsystems and Advanced Micro Devices this week tied the knot at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas to deliver a complete line of Opteron-based servers in the next calendar year. The move will initially silence some critics, who have complained that Sun has not faced the hard realities that its UltraSparc platform has fallen woefully behind the competition. But the critics will soon be lamenting how long it will take Sun to roll out its AMD hardware and 64-bit Solaris for the Opteron. READ MORE >
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IBM Announces PowerPC 970 Blade Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Seeking to halt all the murmuring about its future Power-based blade servers, IBM last week announced the product and set a shipment date of March 5, 2004. The new blades, which will plug into the existing BladeCenter chassis, are the first non-Intel blade servers that IBM will put on the market. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 BROOKS INTERNET SOFTWARE
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ERP Software Spending Seems to Be Picking Up
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
No one wants to call a recovery in the IT business, because no one wants to look like a fool if such a prediction turns out to be wrong. But the consultancies that track spending on enterprise applications (which have been called enterprise resource planning, or ERP, applications since the mid-1990s) are starting to indicate that IT spending for these complex and expensive applications is on the rise again. READ MORE >
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Stratus Offers Free Upgrades to ftServer Customers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Here's something you don't see every day in the Wintel server racket. Fault-tolerant server maker Stratus Technologies is offering customers who buy its ft5600 servers a trade-in credit equal to the value of the base ft5600 machine, if customers need to upgrade to the bigger ft6600 servers that the company announced in early September. 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
 WINTERNALS SOFTWARE
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VMware Debuts VMotion, VirtualCenter Add-Ons to Partitions
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
VMware, the company best known for its virtual machine partitioning software for 32-bit X86 workstations and servers, started talking in mid-July about products it would be rolling out to make X86 servers more malleable and controllable than they are today. This week, the VirtualCenter product (developed under the name Control Center) is available, and so is its adjunct, a nifty program called VMotion. Both programs give Wintel and Lintel iron something akin to the flexible partitioning technologies that are available on Unix and mainframe servers. READ MORE >
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As I See It: Attracting What You Want
by Victor Rozek
As far as I can tell, from experience and observation, there are two primary ways for honest people to achieve their aspirations: They can create them, or they can attract them. We all understand the first method--working hard, head down, shoulders slumped, fingers pounding the ergonomic keyboard. Many people keep right on pounding it until their first coronary, only to discover they still haven't lived the life they wanted. 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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