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A Few Bumps on the Road to Windows XP SP2
Since Microsoft Corp. began its staged rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) late last week, there have been a few bumps—but, at least so far, no major potholes—on the road to deployment. Microsoft has characterized SP2 as a “critical” must-have update. The company’s overriding message is that all Windows XP users should deploy…
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Graphics Workstation Uses Nocona Chip, Nvidia Tech
Verari Systems is putting Intel’s Nocona chip and the latest graphics technology from Nvidia into a high-end workstation aimed at compute-intensive tasks. Verari Systems Inc. unveiled the two-way NemeSys X64 graphics workstation Tuesday at the Siggraph computer graphics show in Los Angeles. The new 3.6GHz Xeon chips—codenamed Nocona, with Intel Corp.’s EM64T extension technology—gives the…
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IBM Not Threatened by Sun’s Novell Gambit
IBM officials scoffed at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s intimations last week that it would buy Novell Inc., calling the rhetoric nothing more than an attempt to disrupt IBM and its customers. The issue ignited when Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz mentioned in interviews with the press, including eWEEK, that the Santa Clara, Calif.,…
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IBM Business Group Drives High Growth
IBM has combined several technology initiatives, including Linux, grid computing and virtualization, into a single high-growth business group, Strategic Growth Initiative, led by Jim Stallings, ex-general manager of Linux for the Armonk, N.Y., company. Stallings talked last month to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about SGI. What motivated the creation of Strategic Growth Initiative? We…
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IM Interoperability: It’s the Business Model, Stupid
The tension between technology and business models is intensifying in the instant messaging market as the largest IM providers test new approaches for working together. So far, business is winning. Last month marked a turning point in the ability for users to communicate across the largest IM networks. Microsoft Inc., Yahoo Inc. and America Online…
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Redmond, We Have a Problem Here: XP SP2
Redmond, we have a problem here. You see, I’m finding that patching Windows XP systems to Service Pack 2 (SP2) has all of the troubles and concerns that come with an operating system upgrade instead of a major patch. Technically, I can handle that, but I suspect there are a lot of VARs (value-added resellers)…
