Penguin Computing Dives Into the Blade Server Fray
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Blade server sales are expected to hit about $1 billion worldwide in 2004, and that means this subset of the server market will begin to attract more players. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, RLX Technologies, NEC, and others have been duking it out in the blade market, and Dell just got back into the game with its blades a few weeks ago. But when it comes to density of flops, but these vendors will have a tough compare to the big splash that Penguin Computing has just made with its BladeRunner blade servers. READ MORE >

Bull Clinches Tera10 Supercomputer Deal for French Nukes
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Having just been bailed out by the French government, it comes as no surprise that indigenous server maker Bull has secured a contract with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) to build a supercomputer cluster based on the future dual-core "Montecito" Itanium processors from Intel. READ MORE >

Crazy Idea Number 527: Should IBM Buy Apple?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the computer industry, some ideas come around again and again. With the industry a-buzz that IBM has ditched its $11 billion desktop and laptop PC business for a paltry $1.25 billion in cash and stock, some people are beginning to murmur, half in jest (but only half so) that this might actually be a precursor to Big Blue's acquisition of Apple. In some ways, this makes perfect sense, and in others, it is downright crazy. Is an IBM-Apple combo thinkable, much less possible? READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: The Dry Fish Affair
by Hesh Wiener

In Scandinavian countries, such as Minnesota, it's lutfisk season. Lutfisk (or lutefisk) is a special kind of dried fish, often cod, that, when hydrated and cooked, is a potent source of fragrance, holiday cheer--and of opinions. It evokes traditions going back several hundred years at least, and possibly as far as the reign of the 10th century Danish King Harald Blatand, whom we would call King Harold Bluetooth. Lutfisk is to the infinitely more powerful olfactory signaling food surströmming, fermented Baltic herring, as Bluetooth wireless networking is the 802.11 family of communication technologies. READ MORE >

  But Wait, There's More

IDC Says Linux Server Sales to Hit $9.1 Billion in 2008 . . . Novell Ditches Openexchange Server, Supports Netline . . . PolyServe Signs Up IBM to Resell Clustering Software . . . HP Says It Considered Break Up Several Times . . . AMD To Put Power Management in Server Chips . . . Server Maker Bull Bailed Out By French Government Yet Again . . . IT Salaries: Up, Flat, or Down in 2005? . . . READ MORE >

Happy Holidays!

After a year full of exciting changes in the information technology market, we have all earned a brief respite from having to process any more information about IT. It is the holiday season, and that is the time for family and friends, as well as some quiet contemplation. But before we close out the year here at the IT Jungle, I have some thoughts I would like to share with you. READ MORE >

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