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Analysts: Is Lenovo Right for IBM’s PC Biz?
A report in The New York Times that IBM is poised to sell off its PC unit has provoked mixed reactions and tentative interpretations from analysts who follow the historic company. The Times’ story said negotiations of such a sale have progressed between Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and Lenovo Group, China’s biggest maker of personal computers,…
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Microsoft Gives NT Server 4, Exchange Server 5.5 Users a (Small) Reprieve
While Microsoft continues to emphasize that it is not extending its basic support for NT Server 4.0 beyond December 31, it is continuing to give users who’ve held off from upgrading slight reprieves. The latest, announced Friday, is one additional year of custom, paid support for NT 4.0 Server. The new deadline for the end…
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IBM Forms POWER Coalition
IBM and 15 of its partners have formed Power.org, a consortium dedicated to promoting the POWER microprocessor architecture, the companies said Wednesday. The companies intend to work on two areas: developing bus technology, as well as other initiatives for the high-volume server sector. IBM’s POWER architecture is featured in is servers; derivatives of the technology…
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Asigra Bolsters Visibility With Channel Strategy
One backup and recovery vendor has found a way to stand out from the pack. Asigra Inc., a Toronto-based company known for its distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, this week announced that its Televaulting software can be purchased not only directly through the company but also through a network of resellers. More…
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Don’t Miss Last Call to Ditch NT 4
Sometimes it’s really sad to see a product die. And then there’s Windows NT 4. Yes, it seemed like a good product when it came out, and maybe it was. But Windows 2000 was a much, much better one, and it’s been out for about five years now. Customers have had enough time to extricate…
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IBM Aims to Bring Order to Chaotic Wi-Fi Revolution
SAN JOSE, Calif.—IBM’s goal in the burgeoning Wi-Fi industry is to help customers deal with the chaos arising from the explosive growth in demand for Wi-Fi access, said James Keegan, IBM’s vice president for Global Pervasive/Wireless e-business solutions. Speaking at Jupitermedia Corp.’s Wi-Fi Planet conference here, Keegan said that to help make pervasive wireless computing…
