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Top IT Players Tout Their Tech at Vortex
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Open-source game over, Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday at the annual Vortex conference here. There are a thousand distros, but Red Hat has taken the dominant IT position. Schwartz claimed that nine out of 10 companies running Linux are using Red Hat in their data centers. He said the promise of…
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Some See PeopleSoft’s End Drawing Near
After 16 months of bloody warfare, PeopleSoft has finally voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss a deal with Oracle—a development that marks the beginning of the end for the company, according to some legal experts. PeopleSoft Inc. board member Steven Goldby, on the stand for the second day in a Delaware court trial,…
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Microsoft’s Upgrade Mandate for SP2 Perks Ruffles Few Feathers
Microsoft’s announcement that it will no longer support Internet Explorer patching for older versions of Windows will have little or no impact on resellers and their customers, although it may cause temporary pain for some. Although the move may create pain for some customers in the short term, some say it is necessary. “If Microsoft…
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AMD Offers Performance Details of New Dual-Core Opteron
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its dual-core architecture here at In Stat/MDR’s Fall Processor Forum and provided the first estimates of the chip’s performance. As the company previously stated, AMD’s first dual-core chips for one to-eight way servers will be “first to market” in 2005. Company executives said client-specific versions are…
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Giving Credit to BPM
Reviewing its technology needs options three years ago, Grupo Financiero Uno suspected there was a better way to conduct business. As the largest issuer of Visa credit cards in Central America, the company found that inefficient operations and decentralized business processes were cutting into its profit margins. Grupo Uno took 15 days to approve a…
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Verizon’s Spring Break-In
According to published carrier reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission, a variety of things, from natural disasters to careless maintenance, can result in disruptive and costly network outages. But sometimes, as in the case of a Verizon Communications Inc. central office last spring, the cause can be deliberate. As first reported in in May,…
