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Volume 6, Number 24 -- June 18, 2008
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Windows Server 2008 Greener Than Past Releases, Microsoft Says
by Alex Woodie

Want to go green? If cutting power costs or curbing greenhouse emissions are important to you, you should be running Windows Server 2008, according to Microsoft. The new operating system brings new power management features that boost its efficiency by up to 10 percent compared to Windows Server 2003, allowing Microsoft to promote Windows Server 2008 as a green, energy-efficient product suited for organizations with goals of energy consumption. READ MORE >

Unisys Pushes Virtual Windows Desktops and Exchange Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While Unisys is still known as a mainframe and high-end X64 server maker, particularly for Windows workloads, the company actually makes a lot of its dough in the services and systems integration area. And because it has a technology bend, being a maker of chips, servers, operating systems, and middleware (back when it wasn't even called that), the company often brings a different twist to a new idea when it puts together a service or solution. READ MORE >


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MicroHoo Now All But Dead
by Alex Woodie

Any potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo now appears all but dead in the wake of terminated discussions between the two companies last week, and revelations of Microsoft's extremely low-ball offer for an alternative partnership deal. While Microsoft left the partnership door open just a hair, Yahoo slammed it shut in Microsoft's face and added insult to injury by finalizing an advertising outsourcing deal with Google. READ MORE >


As I See It: The Programmer as Artist
by Victor Rozek

It has been variously described as art, science, a teachable skill, a creative process, and an exercise in logic. And because it can boast of having all those properties, the nature of programming remains as elusive as good government. The challenge in pinning down the essence of programming is that no single descriptor is exact or sufficient. Almost anything you can say about it elicits a 'yes, but. . .' reaction. READ MORE >



 

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AMD Offers Clock Cranks on Barcelona Opterons
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

OK, so last week, when I said that Advanced Micro Devices had finally finished getting its quad-core Rev F lineup of processors into the field with the delivery of the 'Budapest' Opteron 1300 series of chips for single-socket workstations and servers, you all knew I was talking about finished at the socket level, right? I certainly didn't want to give the impression that there would be no more clock speed bumps in the quad-core Opteron lineup. READ MORE >


But Wait, There's More:

• 'Firefox Download Day' Flops, But Version 3 Is Expected to Rock

• IBM Is Enjoying the Role of Green Giant

• IBM Says SOA Deployments Will Rise in 2008, But What About SMBs?

• The World Can't Get Enough Disk Array Capacity

• Microsoft Encourages 'Touching' at New Vegas iBar


 

Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights.  Feel free to send a letter to the editor.  Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


 
Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
Timothy Prickett Morgan, Victor Rozek, Kevin Vandever, Hesh Wiener
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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The Four Hundred
Happy 20th Birthday, AS/400!

The Power 595 Takes the Top TPC-C Benchmark Ranking

The World Can't Get Enough Disk Array Capacity

Mad Dog 21/21: iPhone Home

IBM Is Enjoying the Role of Green Giant

The Linux Beacon
Beep, Beep: Roadrunner Linux Super Breaks the Petaflops Barrier

AMD Offers Clock Cranks on Barcelona Opterons

The World Can't Get Enough Disk Array Capacity

Stratus Builds Its First HA Clustering Product Atop Xen

IBM Is Enjoying the Role of Green Giant

Four Hundred Stuff
Sysload Delivers Fine-Grain Monitoring for Virtual Servers

Adobe Eases Deployment with New Release of LiveCycle Suite

PowerTech Updates i OS Log Management Software

Help/Systems' SEQUEL Gets More BI Tooling

Varsity Teams with NGS for New BI Product

Big Iron
Where Is the Mainframe Blade Server?

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
Keeping 5250 Alive

Seeking Advice on REXX

Admin Alert: All About the System i Attention Light

System i PTF Guide
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The Unix Guardian
The Power 595 Takes the Top TPC-C Benchmark Ranking

AMD Offers Clock Cranks on Barcelona Opterons

Forget About Platforms, Let's Talk About Jobs

As I See It: Citizen CEO

IBM Is Enjoying the Role of Green Giant

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Windows Server 2008 Greener Than Past Releases, Microsoft Says

Unisys Pushes Virtual Windows Desktops and Exchange Servers

MicroHoo Now All But Dead

As I See It: The Programmer as Artist

AMD Offers Clock Cranks on Barcelona Opterons

But Wait, There's More:

'Firefox Download Day' Flops, But Version 3 Is Expected to Rock . . . IBM Is Enjoying the Role of Green Giant . . . IBM Says SOA Deployments Will Rise in 2008, But What About SMBs? . . . The World Can't Get Enough Disk Array Capacity . . . Microsoft Encourages 'Touching' at New Vegas iBar . . .


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