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HP, Intel, and Oracle Gang Up on IBM Mainframes
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
As part of the festivities at the Oracle OpenWorld customer event in San Francisco this week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it was teaming up with chip maker Intel and Oracle, which has the most popular relational database on Unix servers and which also has middleware and many different application software suites, to try to persuade IBM mainframe shops that it is now time to move to new architectures and new applications. READ MORE >
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Dell Launches Its First Opteron-Based Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Server and PC maker Dell, smarting from market share declines and competitive pressures among other problems, started to rectify its position in the server market this week by launching its first two Opteron-based PowerEdge servers. Back in May, after a downturn in its financial results, Dell said that it would stop its Intel-exclusive strategy, and this week Dell and alternate chip partner Advanced Micro Devices chose the Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco as the stage on which to launch the machines. READ MORE >
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Workstation Market Booms in the Second Quarter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
For two decades now, a workstation has meant a high-end PC, the kind of high-performance machine that most of us do not have on our desks and that many of us wish that we did. Today's workstation is, in many ways, tomorrow's PC. And the fact that the workstation market keeps growing and evolving seems to suggest that our appetite for more performance and sophisticated capability has not abated in 20 years. READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
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