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AIX 5L V5.3 Gets Unix 03 Certification
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server and operating system maker IBM has announced that its latest iteration of the AIX operating system, AIX 5L V5.3, has been certified as conforming to the Unix 03 standard from The Open Group. That organization is, of course, the home of the Unix standard, and it is also the body that along with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) controls the POSIX interface standards that are common in Unix and other operating systems. READ MORE >

Azul Systems Revamps Compute Appliances with 48-Core Vega2 Chip
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server appliance maker Azul Systems is not letting its legal battle with Sun Microsystems stop innovation with its Compute Appliance servers, which offload Java workloads from general purpose servers. This week, Azul announced four new systems that are based on its 48-core Vega2 processor, which doubles the scalability of the Compute Appliances. READ MORE >


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PwC Consultants Predict an IT Talent Shortage
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The data centers and departments of the world's companies are not the only organizations that are constantly wrestling with developing technical talent and keeping their techies happy. The technology companies of the world--who supply us our hardware, software, telecommunications, and information services--have the same exact problem. And maybe they even have it worse, if a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers is a glimpse into the personnel management realities that technology companies are facing. READ MORE >


Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse
by Hesh Wiener

IBM is hooting about SOA, which stands for Services Oriented Architecture and which approximately means putting the changing needs of end users at the heart of computer systems development. We don't know where end users were in the landscape before; we had, apparently in mistake, thought they were always the most prominent feature. In any event, this kind of SOA stuff, even if it makes some excellent points, is largely a red herring. It won't reduce software or support costs. To do that, IBM resorts to another SOA, Substitute Offshore Artisans. READ MORE >



 

 

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But Wait, There's More:

Reader Feedback on As I See It: The Other "Tude" . . . AMD Creates Two-Socket Athlon FX Variant, Demos Quad-Core Opteron . . . IBM Tweaks BladeCenter H Chassis for Telcos . . . Gartner Predicts Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power by 2008 . . . Disk Array Sales Keep Revving in Q3, Says IDC . . . Phishing, Zero-Days Top Symantec's Security List . . .


 

 

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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AIX 5L V5.3 Gets Unix 03 Certification

Azul Systems Revamps Compute Appliances with 48-Core Vega2 Chip

PwC Consultants Predict an IT Talent Shortage

Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse

But Wait, There's More:


Reader Feedback on As I See It: The Other "Tude" . . . AMD Creates Two-Socket Athlon FX Variant, Demos Quad-Core Opteron . . . IBM Tweaks BladeCenter H Chassis for Telcos . . . Gartner Predicts Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power by 2008 . . . Disk Array Sales Keep Revving in Q3, Says IDC . . . Phishing, Zero-Days Top Symantec's Security List . . .


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