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Volume 3, Number 31 -- August 24, 2006
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IBM Finishes Up Power5+ Rollout on System p5 Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM yesterday announced that it has completed the rollout of its Power5+ processors into its System p5 line, putting the dual-core 2.1 GHz chips into its entry AIX server line. The revamped products also support the Power5+ quad-core modules (QCMs), which IBM first introduced last fall in its midrange Unix servers. The QCMs cram two dual-core Power5+ chips onto a single chip package, allowing IBM to double the core count per chip socket in the servers. READ MORE >

The Server Market Struggles for Growth in Q2, Says IDC
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The second quarter is never a particularly good one for the server business, and according to the latest statistics from IDC, server makers are having a hard time making up their revenues in volume. In the second quarter of 2006, worldwide server revenues across all types of servers rose by only six-tenths of a percent to $12.3 billion, and server volumes decelerated to a mere 8.3 percentgrowth, with just over 1.8 million units shipped. This is the third straight quarter of single-digit server shipment growth, and the eighth quarter of slowing shipments. READ MORE >


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Clerity to Revive Mainframe Rehosting after Acquiring Sun Tools
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Clerity Solutions has a 15-year history of providing porting services and tools from obscure computing systems to more modern computers. But by acquiring a set of mainframe application porting and rehosting tools from Sun Microsystems, which the company quietly did at the end of June, Clerity is now a relatively big player at many mainframe shops and a driver of lots of Unix server sales. READ MORE >


Does the Size of Your IT Supplier Really Matter?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Numbers matter to people. There are symbolic floors and ceilings, expressed as numbers, that delineate what most of us consider the proper bounds to reality or significant milestones. Think of Dow 10,000, or the turn of the millennium, or a 25th wedding anniversary, or breaking the 10-second barrier for the 100-meter dash, or pushing through the sound barrier. Moreover, disasters magnify with increasing numbers by more than you might think possible--if you weren't human, that is. We rank the events and the things in our lives by numbers, and in many cases, the changing numbers change our behavior. Even if it is not always logical. READ MORE >



 

 

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But Wait, There's More:

Yankee Cases the Platform Vendors in the SMB Space . . . Dell Backs Opterons Further as Profits Plunge . . . AMR Research Says HCM and CRM Markets Are Growing Faster than ERP . . . IBM to Use QuickTransit to Emulate X86 Linux on Power Servers . . . SaaS Is Real: Salesforce.com Boasts of 500,000 Subscribers . . . IBM to Spend $100 Million in 2006 to Drive Express Offerings at SMB Shops . . .


 

 

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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IBM Finishes Up Power5+ Rollout on System p5 Servers

The Server Market Struggles for Growth in Q2, Says IDC

Clerity to Revive Mainframe Rehosting after Acquiring Sun Tools

Does the Size of Your IT Supplier Really Matter?

But Wait, There's More:


Yankee Cases the Platform Vendors in the SMB Space . . . Dell Backs Opterons Further as Profits Plunge . . . AMR Research Says HCM and CRM Markets Are Growing Faster than ERP . . . IBM to Use QuickTransit to Emulate X86 Linux on Power Servers . . . SaaS Is Real: Salesforce.com Boasts of 500,000 Subscribers . . . IBM to Spend $100 Million in 2006 to Drive Express Offerings at SMB Shops . . .


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Does the Size of Your IT Supplier Really Matter?

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The X Factor: Database Appliances Come Around Again

The Linux Beacon
Novell Touts SUSE Linux 10, Says Desktops and Xen Are Ready

Open Source Expands Beyond Linux, and Vendors Follow

HP Chalks Up Another Decent Thirteen Weeks in Fiscal Q3

The X Factor: Database Appliances Come Around Again

Big Iron
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The Windows Observer
Symantec Critical of Windows Vista Security

Worms Exploiting Windows Server Service Vulnerability

AMD Unveils Rev F Opterons, Prepares for Quad Cores in Mid-2007

Sun Adds Two Entry Servers to the Galaxy Lineup


 
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