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Volume 1, Number 35 -- October 12, 2004


 
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Turbolinux to Deliver 2.6 Kernel in 10 Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Japanese commercial Linux distributor Turbolinux becomes the second of the third of the major Linux players to announce its server variant based on the Linux 2.6 kernel. While Turbolinux will be third when it comes to announcing, it will get its software to market in Japan before the end of the month and worldwide by early December, behind Novell and well ahead of industry juggernaut Red Hat. READ MORE >

 

IBM Cranks the Clock on Power, Xeon Blade Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM will today finally deliver its AIX variant of the Unix operating system on the PowerPC-based blades inside its BladeCenter chassis. In addition, the company is boosting the performance of those PowerPC blades, which can also run Linux, and rolling out new X86-style blades based on Intel's "Nocona" 64-bit extended Xeon processors with 800 MHz front side buses. READ MORE >


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TopSpin Pushes Utility Computing with Grid Switch Bundle
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

TopSpin Communications, which is best known as one of the most vocal proponents of the InfiniBand switched I/O architecture, has announced a special bundle of its InfiniBand server switches, InfiniBand host adapters, and VFrame server provisioning and management software to help promote the adoption of grid computing. READ MORE >

 

Mad Dog 21/21: Sell Phones
by Hesh Wiener

Sometimes deception works, sometimes not. The Viceroy butterfly improves the odds of its survival by imitating the Monarch; predators don't like the taste of the Monarch and avoid the tastier Viceroy. But even old Aesop pointed out that a subterfuge might not always work as expected. The wolf in a sheepskin infiltrated the flock, but when the farmer sought a sheep for the dinner table, he seized and slaughtered the disguised wolf. High technology has notable examples of misdirection, too, and, fittingly, the effects may not always be as they appear. READ MORE >

 

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  But Wait, There's More

Cray Has Coming Out Party for XD1 Linux Supers . . . HP Promises Specialized Linux Telecom Blade Servers . . . OSI Hosting Buys 12,000 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Licenses . . . Novell Releases SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 . . . Temporal Dynamics Launches High-Speed Database . . . Avnet, HP Partner to Push Servers in Mexico . . . Offshore Outsourcing Growing at 20 Percent Per Year, META Says . . . 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:

Micro Focus
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MySQL
BOScom
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Turbolinux to Deliver 2.6 Kernel in 10 Server

IBM Cranks the Clock on Power, Xeon Blade Servers

TopSpin Pushes Utility Computing with Grid Switch Bundle

Mad Dog 21/21: Sell Phones

But Wait, There's More




The Four Hundred
Q&A: iSeries GM Borman to Focus on i5/OS Sales

Dataram Sells Clone eServer i5, p5 Main Memory

IBM Talks Up WebSphere 6, Due in Two Months

The Windows Observer
Microsoft 'Embedding' Itself into the Retail Supply Chain

SQL Server Gets Business Intelligence Enhancements

HP Sets Up Blade Server Division, Readies Opteron Blades

The Unix Guardian
Rotten to the Core: Chips, Lies, and Software Licenses

IBM Drops eServer Power5 Clock Speed, Prices to Chase Sun

New TPC Benchmarks Are on the Horizon




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