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Fresh Rumors Erupt over Red Hat-Oracle Buy
First, rumor had it that Oracle was buying JBoss. Didn’t happen. Then Larry Ellison reportedly was dissing Red Hat support and making noises about Oracle stepping in to provide that support. Oracle went (typically) mute about any supposed plans put forth by its free-wheeling head, Mr. “I-don’t-check-with-no-stinkin’-media-relations-before-I-open-my-mouth” Ellison. Then there was last week at LinuxWorld,…
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IT to Become Career Gateway, Not Finish Line
The future enterprise technology career path will meander in and out of the IT department, according to research presented a Forrester teleconference on Aug. 22. "Enterprise IT is going through a metamorphosis. The career path is not as straightforward as it once might have been. You used to start as a programmer or operator and…
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Nexaweb Intros Enterprise Mashup Tool
Nexaweb Technologies is scheduled to announce a new version of its platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 applications, Nexaweb Studio 2.4, on Aug. 23. Part of the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 suite, Nexaweb Studio 2.4 is an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment) that lets developers leverage RIA (Rich Internet Application), SOA (service-oriented architecture),…
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Intel Readies Official ‘Tulsa’ Launch
Intel is preparing to launch “Tulsa,” a dual-core Xeon MP processor and the last of its chips built on its NetBurst architecture. Though it has been shipping Tulsa processors for revenue since earlier in the quarter, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is expected to officially roll out Tulsa on Aug. 29, according to sources. Intel…
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IBM Goes After EMC with ‘Turbo’ Storage Servers
IBM doesn’t often name names when it publicly discusses its competitors in the IT storage business, but it made an exception Aug. 22 when it aimed a new product line squarely at market leader EMC. The new “turbo-powered” line of storage servers offers faster performance and improved system management compared to both EMC’s servers and…
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Mainframers Learn New Tricks
As a shortage of developers with mainframe skills looms over the industry, IBM and some of its partners hope to renew interest in the big systems through partnerships with universities, new programs, new tools, and support for modern languages and architectures. Motivating the move is that, while IBM’s mainframe business has picked up, the work…
