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In This Issue
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Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week
Sponsored By
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Oracle, HP Show Killer Cluster Performance and Value
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Database maker Oracle and server maker and Itanium enthusiast Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced killer performance and price/performance on the TPC-C online transaction processing benchmark test using a Linux cluster. This benchmark is important for a lot of different reasons, especially if you are thinking about server architectures for the future. READ MORE >
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HP Launches Blade PC, Other Adaptive Enterprise Gizmos
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Every now and then, an idea so obvious comes along that you wonder why you didn't think of it first. Hewlett-Packard last week unveiled what it is calling a blade PC, along with a bunch of other virtualization offerings that have been pushed under the Adaptive Enterprise umbrella. The blade PC concept is interesting, and it could catch on in a big way. READ MORE >
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Sun Continues Low-End, High-Volume Product Push
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Sun Microsystems last week unleashed a slew of low-end products that it hopes will get it back into making money in an increasingly penny-pinching IT environment. Sun made the product announcements, which for the most part fall into its Volume Systems Products group that sells workstations and entry servers, at the SunNetwork 2003 conference in Berlin. READ MORE >
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Gartner Says Server Sales Up a Tiny Bit in Q3
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
While server shipments have been up a healthy amount in recent quarters, what we have been all looking for as sellers and consumers of servers is an uptick in server revenues. If vendors are actually making money selling servers, that is a pretty good indication that the economy is on the mend. Well, if server stats are an economic barometer, then the latest numbers from Gartner's Dataquest unit would seem to indicate that the economies in North America, Europe, and Asia are stabilizing. READ MORE >
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 SUSE LINUX
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 WINTERNALS SOFTWARE
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HP to Resell RadiSys Carrier-Grade Servers to Telecoms and SPs
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Hewlett Packard announced last week that it has tapped specialist hardware maker RadiSys to supply it with a line of rack-mounted blade servers that adhere to the myriad standards developed by the telecommunications and service provider industries. While HP has a substantial business selling PA-RISC Unix servers into the telecommunications and service provider markets, it does not have a carrier-grade Linux-on-Intel line that meets industry standards. READ MORE >
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Disk Array Sales Firming Up, Says IDC
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
On configured midrange and enterprise servers today, main memory and disk storage can account for anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of the total cost of acquiring that system. So you would think that it would be relatively easier to make money selling disk arrays, right? Wrong. The disk market has been cut-throat for years, and it shows no sign of abating any time soon. But with business perking up a bit, makers of disk arrays are saw their top lines stabilize in the third quarter, according to an analysis of the market released by IDC last week. 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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