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Windows XP Sales Get a Reprieve
by Alex Woodie

Faced with a January 31 deadline for the end of Windows XP sales, customers applied enough pressure on Microsoft to get Windows XP sales extended five months--to the end of June 2008--the software giant announced this week. To go along with the sales extension, the suddenly rejuvenated operating system also was the target of a new licensing program that allows resellers to sell licenses to customers that had inadvertently bought or used pirated copies of the operating system previously, and to do so through volume licensing channels. READ MORE >

Businesses Targeted by Microsoft's New 'Online' SaaS Offering
by Alex Woodie

Microsoft will be selling businesses software as a service (SaaS) access to several of its server products, including Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications, as part of its new 'Online' offering. The software giant also made an addition to the second fork of its SaaS strategy, the consumer- and individual-focused 'Live' brand, with the debut of a free collaborative productivity service called Office Live Workspace. READ MORE >


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An Update from the X64 Server Battlefields
by Dan Olds

Four major vendors--Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems--are engaged in an often brutal head-to-head competition in the X64 server market. As vendors race for the biggest piece of the pie, customers are faced with conflicting claims and constantly changing technology. We believe the best way to track technology advances, figure out which new technologies are actually beneficial, and assess shifting customer perceptions about the major vendors is to go directly to the data center for answers via our ongoing Server Vendor Preference Surveys. READ MORE >


Oracle on Windows: A Strong Combination, Ovum Says
by Alex Woodie

Ever since Oracle delivered the first database for the Windows NT platform back in 1994, the combination of the Oracle relational database management system and the Windows Server operating system has powered applications for businesses of all sizes. And while Microsoft SQL Server now competes fiercely with the Oracle database, the two software giants have remained remarkably chummy when it comes to keeping Oracle running well on Windows Server, the IT analyst group Ovum Summit reported in a recent paper commissioned by Oracle. READ MORE >



 

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But Wait, There's More:

Microsoft Outsources Back-Office Functions to Accenture . . . Calculation Flaw Spotted in Excel . . . Dell Declares Carbon Neutrality . . . BakBone Adds CDP to NetVault . . . What Are IT Employees Up To? Sleeping and Kissing, Apparently . . . Oracle Sales Go Boom in Its First Fiscal Quarter . . .


 

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,
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The Four Hundred
State of the System i: What's Going On in the Market?

Summit Partners Sells Help/Systems to Audax Group

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

IBM Helps Users Migrate to Power6-Based System i Boxes

The Linux Beacon
Red Hat, Reporting Q2, Reorganizes Operations for Growth

An Update from the X64 Server Battlefields

HP Wins 163 Teraflops Opteron Super Deal at PNNL

Sun Ships Intel-Based Galaxy Rack Servers

Four Hundred Stuff
Bug Busters Achieves High Availability Milestone with RSF 8.1

LANSA to Deliver Code-Less Business Process Integration for SMBs

Water District Makes Second Run at Electronic Document Retention

The ROI of RF Technology

Big Iron
Leasing and Financing Are Important IT Tools, Says IDC

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Four Hundred Guru
Weird SQL UNION Results

A Snippet Above the Rest

Admin Alert: What Vendors Want to Know (and How to Get It)

System i PTF Guide
September 29, 2007: Volume 9, Number 39

September 22, 2007: Volume 9, Number 38

September 15, 2007: Volume 9, Number 37

September 8, 2007: Volume 9, Number 36

September 1, 2007: Volume 9, Number 35

August 25, 2007: Volume 9, Number 34

The Unix Guardian
Sun Enhances Solaris Developer Edition, Adds Support

Sun Ships Intel-Based Galaxy Rack Servers

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

As I See It: Shocking

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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Windows XP Sales Get a Reprieve

Businesses Targeted by Microsoft's New 'Online' SaaS Offering

An Update from the X64 Server Battlefields

Oracle on Windows: A Strong Combination, Ovum Says

But Wait, There's More:

Microsoft Outsources Back-Office Functions to Accenture . . . Calculation Flaw Spotted in Excel . . . Dell Declares Carbon Neutrality . . . BakBone Adds CDP to NetVault . . . What Are IT Employees Up To? Sleeping and Kissing, Apparently . . . Oracle Sales Go Boom in Its First Fiscal Quarter . . .


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