Cray and Intel Hook Up for Future Supercomputers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The amount of money at stake is not huge, and the number of processors involved will not be anything close to the kind of volume shipments that general purpose servers account for. But this week's announcement by supercomputer maker Cray that it had formed a multi-year technology development agreement with Intel is something of an embarrassment to Advanced Micro Devices--as much as Cray's original partnership with AMD back in June 2002 for the $90 million 'Red Storm' supercomputer was an embarrassment to Intel. READ MORE >

Red Hat Previews Fedora 9 Development Linux
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you like to be out there on the bleeding edge of the Linux operating system, then Red Hat has a preview of an upcoming Fedora Development release, Version 9 to be precise and code-named 'Sulphur' if you play Code Name Bingo, that it would love for you to take out for a spin. The Fedora Project is, of course, where the developers who create what ultimately becomes Red Hat Enterprise Linux take their first stabs at integrating new Linux kernels, additional systems software, and applications into a whole. READ MORE >

Intel Profits Hit, AMD Books a Loss in Recent Quarters
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Competition is a very tough thing, particularly when vendors get pinched by each other and a tightening economy at the same time. But so it is in the market for X64 microprocessors sold by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. While both companies are under pressure, dominant chip maker Intel is still making profits and ramping up acceptable quad-core products, while AMD is just now getting quad-core chips out the door and facing a resurgent Intel as it slashes 10 percent of its workforce to balance its books. READ MORE >

As I See It: Goldilocks and the Zen of IT
by Victor Rozek

All right kids, grab your blankies and pillows, get comfy, and I'll tell you the story of Goldilocks, the IT Zen masters, and the three migration options. Once upon a time, there was a CEO everyone called Goldilocks because she had curly blond hair and the people in her company suffered from a paucity of imagination. Goldilocks had a problem. Her enterprise system was toooo old, her employees were toooo inefficient; and, if things didn't change soon, her annual bonus was going to be toooo small. READ MORE >