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Dell Building Denser, Cheaper Blades
Dell Inc. is ready to expand its blade server offerings, more than two years after coming out with its first version of the ultradense form factor. The Round Rock, Texas, company in the fourth quarter will roll out new blade systems that will be more dense than those currently available from competitors, said Paul Gottsegen,…
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Microsoft’s Win Called Nail in Antitrust Coffin
Microsoft’s victory in a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday largely ends the Department of Justice’s 6-year-old antitrust case against the software maker and removes a major financial barrier for the company. Wednesday’s ruling struck down Massachusetts’ appeal of a 2001 settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the DOJ. Massachusetts was seeking stronger remedies against the…
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Coyote Point Aims High with New Load Balancer
Coyote Point Systems Inc., an application traffic management provider, this week will go after larger enterprises with a new high-end load balancer. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, which has historically sold load balancers to small and midsize enterprises for about a quarter of the price of those offered by larger vendors such as Cisco Systems…
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Windows Loses Another Customer to Sun’s JDS
Microsoft is losing another customer to an alternative desktop operating system, with Allied Irish Bank, one of Ireland’s largest banking and financial services groups, set to transition its branch-dependent applications and migrate about 7,500 desktop users off Windows and onto the Sun Java Desktop System over the next year or so. Sun Microsystems Inc., of…
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Microsoft Takes Aim at ‘Nonprofessional’ Programmers
On Tuesday, Microsoft officially took the wraps off a new line of low-priced tools aimed at nonprofessional programmers. The first betas of both the full Visual Studio tool suite and the so-called “Express” versions of Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J# and SQL Server (as well as a new product, Visual WebDev Express)…
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Adaptec Picks Up RAID Tech from IBM
Adaptec said Tuesday that it has acquired RAID technology from IBM in return for a guaranteed supply agreement. According to a statement released late Tuesday by Milpitas, Calif.-based Adaptec Inc., the deal involves both products and intellectual property currently used by IBM inside its server line. A spokeswoman for Adaptec said the deal involves the…
