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Volume 1, Number 8 -- March 16, 2004


 
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Brace Yourself: Major Intel Architectural Shifts Ahead
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is the job of the chief technology officers at the major IT companies to be enthusiastic about technology for its own sake (they are nerds, after all) and for how it can shape our daily lives. But behind the scenes, CTOs also have to be practical about the limits of various technologies and then pick those that their companies will use to build the future products that we buy as consumers or businesses. If they choose wrongly, their companies will suffer. READ MORE >

 

Stratus Debuts First Fault-Tolerant Linux Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Fault tolerant server maker Stratus Technologies today announced the first in what it says will be a full line of Linux-based machines that bring the resilience it created for high-end Unix machines in the 1990s and ported to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 in the past several years to its own variant of the open source Linux 2.4 operating system running on Intel's 32-bit Xeon DP processors. READ MORE >


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New XFree86 X Server Rubs Linux, Unix the Wrong Way
by Justin Ward

In late January, the XFree86 Project changed its license in a way that many say goes against the GNU General Public License agreement (GPL) commonly used to distribute open source programs. As a result, the several open source Unix and Linux distributions find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. Reluctant to include software in their distributions, which many no longer view as truly free because of the licensing change, they are surveying their options. READ MORE >

 

As I See It: The Path of Service
by Victor Rozek

There are two times in your life when you are most likely to be called to the path of service: when you are very young and still believe you can save the world, and toward the end of your career, when you have enjoyed the world's bounty and want to give something back. The first group is inspired by optimism and hope, the second by gratitude and an understanding of the universal value of reciprocity--worthy motivations in a world often lacking noble virtues. READ MORE >

 
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  But Wait, There's More

SGI Extends Linux to 256 Processors on Altix Supers . . . HP Hits the High End of Expectations for Q1, Enterprise Storage and Servers Posts Operating Profit . . . IP Telecom Joins Open Source Development Labs . . . Tsunami Debuts HiveCreator Clustering for Linux . . . Lilly Software Offers Money-Back Guarantee on Lean Manufacturing Suite . . . IBM Leads in Content Management Software . . . Study: False Positives a Growing Problem for Spam Filters . . .. READ MORE >




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 >


Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Kevin Vandever,
Shannon O'Donnell, Victor Rozek, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

Acucorp
Pogo Linux
Open Systems
ShaoLin Microsystems
SuSE Linux


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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Brace Yourself: Major Intel Architectural Shifts Ahead

Stratus Debuts First Fault-Tolerant Linux Server

New XFree86 X Server Rubs Linux, Unix the Wrong Way

As I See It: The Path of Service

But Wait, There's More







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