HP Adds Entry Itanium Servers, Finally Delivers HP-UX 11i v3
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hewlett-Packard today will continue to refresh its Itanium-based Integrity server line with Intel's dual-core "Montecito" Itanium 9000 processors, adding an entry server and a blade server to the lineup. The company will also finally ship the next version of its HP-UX operating system for PA-RISC and Itanium servers, HP-UX 11i v3. The Itanium servers will support HP-UX 11i v2, the new v3, as well as Windows, Linux, and eventually the OpenVMS proprietary platform. READ MORE >

Unix Is Dead? It Isn't Even Sick. . .
by Dan Olds

Some industry pundits have made a living predicting the imminent death of the Unix server, usually saying that the market will implode sometime in "the near future." Of course, as the "near future" inevitably becomes the present, their timetable for the Unix funeral is automatically adjusted to move just over the horizon, with the idea that no one will remember the predictions of yesteryear. These sentiments are also spread by a host of vendors who, for their own reasons, believe they will profit by the demise of Unix. READ MORE >

Chip Makers Strut Their Stuff at ISSCC
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Chip geeks and semiconductor mavens from around the world are converging on San Francisco this week to show off their latest innovations at the annual IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference. This is one of the two annual events where a lot of advances in chip design are first revealed to the world--the other being the Hot Chips conference hosted in the summer. At this week's event, Intel, IBM, Advanced Micro Devices, Sun Microsystems, and PA Semi are showing off future server microprocessors. READ MORE >

As I See It: Measuring What Counts
by Victor Rozek

Some things are just perfect. The smell of a pie baking in the oven; the laughter of children at play; the satisfaction of reading a great book. Ideas are like that too. Some are so compelling as to be irresistible. The notion that all men are created equal. The admonition to do onto others as you would have them do onto you. President Kennedy's challenge to shoot the moon. READ MORE >