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Intel Bangs the Itanium Drum, Draws Out Roadmap
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Chip maker Intel, which is in the midst of a substantial technological turnaround with its X64 chips for laptops, desktops, and servers, doesn't want the world to think that it has forgotten about Itanium, the step-child that it more or less adopted from Hewlett-Packard a decade ago to create a better and more elegant processing architecture that was--and you must remember this--supposed to replace the 32-bit X86 chip utterly and completely. That didn't happen, of course, but Itanium has found its place in the data centers of the world. READ MORE >

Sun Revs Solaris Express Developer Edition, Adds Non-Sun Iron Support
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

A few weeks ago, Sun Microsystems announced a new release of its compiler set, Studio 12, that had tweaked features to support the efficient running of applications on quad-core X64 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. At the time, Sun said that the compilers were available for free and that they would be included in an upcoming snapshot of Solaris Express Developer Edition. Now, this new rev of Developer Edition is out. READ MORE >


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Disk Array Sales Still Humming Along, Says IDC
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Few things in the world exhibit such perfect elasticity of price and demand as the appetite that corporations have had over the past 50 years for disk storage. As disk technology has progressed and the cost of a unit of capacity has come down dramatically, this has fueled an even larger demand for capacity. This has remained so in the first quarter of 2007, according to statistics compiled by IDC. READ MORE >


Vision Solutions Acquires HA Rival Lakeview Technology
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Tectonic shifts continue a-pace in what was formerly the quiet land of the OS/400 and i5/OS ecosystem as Vision Solutions, the dominant supplier of high availability software for the System i platform, announced last Wednesday that it has acquired rival Lakeview Technology. Thoma Cressey Bravo, the private equity firm that bought Vision Solutions late last year and then followed it up by acquiring HA rival iTera, is funding the Lakeview Technology acquisition. Both companies also have a presence in the Unix clustering market as well. READ MORE >



 

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The Four Hundred
The i5 515 and 525 Versus the Unix Competition

Vision Solutions Acquires HA Rival Lakeview Technology

Adoption of VoIP Tied to Relief from Phone Expenses

The Web Runtime Tax: The Tax Man Cometh, Again

The Linux Beacon
Linspire Hooks Up with Microsoft, Too

Intel Bangs the Itanium Drum, Draws Out Roadmap

Novell Ships Service Pack 1 for SUSE Linux 10

Torvalds Says Linux May Follow Solaris with GPL v3

Four Hundred Stuff
IBM Taps Nortel for Entry-Level System i VoIP Solution

North Carolina Schools Laud SafeData for Online DR Solution

NGS Hooks Into Query/400 to Protect BI Investments

S4i Expands File Support in Document Management Software

Big Iron
Mainsoft Updates .NET-Java Tool with 2.0 Release

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
Parameter Passing and Performance

Conditional Counting with Open Query File

What Is SMIOSTCPGT and Why Is It Eating My System?

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The Windows Observer
Microsoft Patches 17 Flaws in Client Products

Microsoft Stretches 'Vision Thing' with Surface Computing

Microsoft Updates Server Virtualization Software

Sun Broadens Its Blade Server Lineup

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intel Bangs the Itanium Drum, Draws Out Roadmap

Sun Revs Solaris Express Developer Edition, Adds Non-Sun Iron Support

Disk Array Sales Still Humming Along, Says IDC

Vision Solutions Acquires HA Rival Lakeview Technology

But Wait, There's More:


MPack Hacker Tool Claims 10,000 Compromised Web Sites . . . NASA to Replace 'Columbia' Itanium-InfiniBand Cluster . . . HP Integrity Running HP-UX Pushes Largest TPC-H Database . . . Symantec Aims to Solve Storage Problems with New Initiative, Product . . . Azul Systems Upgrades Java Appliances . . . Pat Townsend's Encryption Solution Certified Across All Major Platforms . . .


The Unix Guardian

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