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ACT 2005 Goes for Flexibility in Contact Management
Best Software on Tuesday released an update to its flagship ACT contact management application, offering separate versions for small teams and larger workgroups and more advanced salesforce automation features. The new version, ACT 2005, has been rearchitected on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database to support the database collaboration and network security required by larger workgroups,…
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Microsoft Preps for the Next SP2 Wave
Microsoft is bracing for the next phase of its rollout of its Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), which kicks off Wednesday. Microsoft is set to begin pushing the service pack to Windows XP Professional users tomorrow via Windows Update/Automatic Update. A week ago, Microsoft began delivering SP2 to Windows XP Home users via its…
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Building a Super Tiny Home Server
I have a dark confession: I haven’t embraced the Mini-ITX revolution. There, I’ve said it. I feel better now. Up to now we’ve been lukewarm on VIA’s tiny motherboards. The concept is very cool—a standard, ultra-compact board. But the performance of the processors for it has been unimpressive, and that goes even more so for…
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IBM Brings NAS Gateway 500 to Entry Level
IBM introduced a new, entry-level configuration of its IBM TotalStorage NAS (network-attached storage) Gateway 500 on Tuesday to give customers running an NAS environment a less costly option to satisfy less-demanding performance requirements. Available by the end of this week, the slimmed-down configuration features a single microprocessor based on Power4+ and is priced at $31,850—about…
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Winternals Offers SP2 Safety Belt
Worried about installing SP2 on your clients’ XP systems and having a crashing application? Winternals, a provider of Microsoft systems availability and performance solutions, has an SP2 seat belt for you: the Winternals Recovery Manager. Winternals Software LP’s Winternals Recovery Manager is a well-regarded, scalable, network-enabled systems recovery program. It enables administrators to quickly roll…
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32-Way Opteron Systems Could Ship Next Year
STANFORD, Calif.—An interconnect chipset permitting server vendors to design up to 32-way Opteron systems will be available later this year, executives from Newisys Inc. said Monday night. Newisys, started as an Austin, Texas, startup in July 2000, was acquired by contract manufacturing giant Sanmina/SCI in July 2003. In 2003, before the Sanmina/SCI acquisition, Newisys executives…
