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Microsoft Launches Business Intelligence Tool for the Masses
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Microsoft last week announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, the company's new flagship business intelligence product. The delivery of PerformancePoint is significant for Microsoft, as the company intends it to herald a new era of reporting and analytics tools that are intuitive enough to be used by regular workers, not just programmers and highly trained analysts. READ MORE >

Microsoft Revs Betas of Longhorn, Viridian, Vista SP1
by Alex Woodie

Microsoft steered the product previously known as 'Longhorn' one step closer to market this week when it declared the availability of the first Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008, or RC0. As expected, the software giant also released the first community technology preview (CTP) of 'Viridian,' the new virtualization hypervisor for Windows Server 2008, and released the first public beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). READ MORE >


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IDF Server Wrap Up: Intel to Keep the Pressure on AMD
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Chip maker Intel has finished up its fall Intel Developer Forum technical conference in San Francisco, and the company last week made it pretty clear that it is going to keep tweaking and improving its server processors and platforms at the aggressive pace that has allowed it to blunt the competitive attack from Advanced Micro Devices. AMD's quad-core 'Barcelona' Opteron chips using a 65 nanometer process are just starting to ship in systems, and Intel is already gearing up improved dual-core and quad-core chips based on the 'Penryn' core and a new 45 nanometer process. READ MORE >


Sun Ships Intel-Based Galaxy Rack Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Seven months after inking a joint development and OEM agreement with Intel, the engineers at Sun Microsystems have put out a second-generation of 'Galaxy' X64-based servers that make use of the latest quad-core Xeon processors from Intel. The machines represent another leap in performance, density, and efficiency compared to the initial Opteron-based Galaxy machines from two years ago, and very likely preview what future 'Barcelona' Rev F Opteron Galaxy boxes will look like. READ MORE >



 

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But Wait, There's More:

Microsoft and Dell Team Up on Business Intelligence . . . No Price Increase for SQL Server 2008 . . . Windows Vista Poses Challenges to Emulation Vendors . . . Security Attacks and Breaches on the Rise . . . Onstor Survey Confirms Data Centers Running Out of Juice . . . Vista Ultimate Con Job? . . .


 

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The Four Hundred
SAP Plants Its Flag in Mid-Market Territory with SaaS Apps

A1S Is to Applications What AS/400 Was to Systems

EGL: At Least It's Not Java, But It Ain't RPG, Either

As I See It: Shocking

The Linux Beacon
IDF Server Wrap Up: Intel to Keep the Pressure on AMD

Mandriva Readies Linux 2008 Editions for October

SAP Plants Its Flag in Mid-Market Territory with SaaS Apps

Opsware Adds Storage, Process Management with System 7 Tools

Four Hundred Stuff
Boise Cascade Gets 'M-Powered' with mrc Reporting Tool

Red Oak Simulates World's Fastest Human Terminal Operator

Echo Cuts Waste with SPLTOOL Investment

BCD's WebSmart PHP Goes GA

Big Iron
Hosing z/OS.e and Other Withdrawals

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
System i Developers and .NET 2.0: ASP.NET and the Declarative Programming Model

Don't Disable Blocking

Admin Alert: When APPN Prevents You from Changing Network Attributes

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The Unix Guardian
SCO Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Sun and Microsoft Go All the Way with Windows

SAP Plants Its Flag in Mid-Market Territory with SaaS Apps

As I See It: The Dons of Dialogue

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
Full iSeries Events Calendar

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Microsoft Launches Business Intelligence Tool for the Masses

Microsoft Revs Betas of Longhorn, Viridian, Vista SP1

IDF Server Wrap Up: Intel to Keep the Pressure on AMD

Sun Ships Intel-Based Galaxy Rack Servers

But Wait, There's More:

Microsoft and Dell Team Up on Business Intelligence . . . No Price Increase for SQL Server 2008 . . . Windows Vista Poses Challenges to Emulation Vendors . . . Security Attacks and Breaches on the Rise . . . Onstor Survey Confirms Data Centers Running Out of Juice . . . Vista Ultimate Con Job? . . .


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