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Volume 4, Number 27 -- July 26, 2007
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The Search for Old Hockey Pucks
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It's definitely the silly season, and you can tell that Europeans are getting ready to go on its annual vacation and North Americans, while still technically working, are not exactly busting hump to get a lot of things done. Excepting those of us in the IT trade press, of course. Anyway, it being the silly season, the biggest Unix news of the week is that Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX Unix variant is celebrating its 20th anniversary of shipments, and HP's United Kingdom division has a contest to find the oldest running HP-UX box in Britain. READ MORE >

HP Buys System Management Tool Maker Opsware for $1.6 Billion
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Since it was founded during the IT downturn in 2002, systems management software maker Opsware has spent a lot of time and money creating the system and network management tools that it has always said cope with the deficiencies of tools made by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and others--and it has spent lots trying to convince the data centers of the world that its Opsware System was just the right thing to bring server, storage, and network sprawl under control. This week, HP admitted that Opsware was right after all, announcing that it would spend $1.6 billion to acquire Opsware. READ MORE >


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Intel Sets Up 'Tigerton' Xeon MPs Against Future Opterons
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

With Advanced Micro Devices gearing up to deliver its "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron Rev F processors in August, rival Intel has no intention of making it easy for AMD to steal all the headlines or garner more extra sales among server customers. That's why Intel this week leaked out some information about its future dual-core "Tigerton" Xeon MP processor and its related server platform. READ MORE >


As I See It: Lawyers, Lies, and Statistics
by Victor Rozek

Here's a statistic guaranteed to curdle the cream in an IT professional's coffee. The huge populations of China and India have produced a correspondingly huge crop of offsprings--628 million kids under the age of 15, give or take a village. That's a lot of young people who will soon (if they haven't already) enter the global labor market. Americans, on the other hand, have sired some 60 million moppets, who blissfully haunt the nation's malls, unaware of the approaching competitive tidal wave about to engulf them. READ MORE >



 

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But Wait, There's More:

HP Sells Heat Modeling Service to Cool Data Centers . . . VMware Puts Virtualization to the Test with VMmark Benchmark . . . Intel's Financials Strengthening, AMD Waiting for Barcelona Kick . . . Vision Ships Update for MIMIX for AIX . . . IDC Expects Virtualization Services Market to Double by 2011 . . . AMR Research Bullish on ERP Software Market . . .


 

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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The Four Hundred
IBM Creates New Power, SMB Server Divisions

Rumor Du Jour: i5/OS on Other Platforms? Not!

IBM Turns In Its Best Second Quarter in Six Years

As I See It: Lawyers, Lies, and Statistics

The Linux Beacon
Linux Distro Xandros Buys Email Specialist Scalix

HP Buys System Management Tool Maker Opsware for $1.6 Billion

IBM Creates New Power, SMB Server Divisions

As I See It: Lawyers, Lies, and Statistics

Four Hundred Stuff
IBM Upgrades High-End System i Server with Power6

IBM Previews i5/OS V6R1, Due in 2008

EMC Offers Hardware-Based HA Alternative

SugarCRM Now Available for i5/OS

Big Iron
Three-Digit z Boxes Head for History

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
Avoid Large Local Variables in Modules

Memory Management: It's Your Fault, Now Fix It

Admin Alert: Getting Around System i Default Passwords, Part 1

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The Windows Observer
Microsoft Hits Record Revenues, But Vista Sales Forecast Lowered

Could Windows '7' Provide Virtual Desktop Breakthrough?

NEC, Stratus Flesh Out Fault Tolerant Server Lines

HP Buys System Management Tool Maker Opsware for $1.6 Billion

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Search for Old Hockey Pucks

HP Buys System Management Tool Maker Opsware for $1.6 Billion

Intel Sets Up 'Tigerton' Xeon MPs Against Future Opterons

As I See It: Lawyers, Lies, and Statistics

But Wait, There's More:


HP Sells Heat Modeling Service to Cool Data Centers . . . VMware Puts Virtualization to the Test with VMmark Benchmark . . . Intel's Financials Strengthening, AMD Waiting for Barcelona Kick . . . Vision Ships Update for MIMIX for AIX . . . IDC Expects Virtualization Services Market to Double by 2011 . . . AMR Research Bullish on ERP Software Market . . .


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