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VP Unfolds Microsoft’s Roadmap
Andy Lees, Microsoft Corp.’s new corporate vice president for server and tools marketing, discussed the Redmond, Wash., company’s plans to increase integration across all its server products with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli late last month. The [Windows Server System] Common Engineering Roadmap could be perceived by customers as a move to make the latest…
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Novell v. SCO: The Telling Blow?
It’s been a busy time for SCO watchers. First, the company—somehow, some way—managed to twist its way out of its deal with BayStar Capital with the lion’s share of the cash, and BayStar was left holding millions of shares of underwater stock. Then, in this week alone, we’ve seen SCO report an absolutely awful second…
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Where, Oh Where Is Windows XP SP2?
May has come and gone without Microsoft releasing a promised second release-candidate beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Microsoft said earlier this year to expect Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of XP SP2 in May. Repeatedly, during the past two weeks, Microsoft officials have said RC2 would ship “sometime in the next few…
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Wireless VOIP Not Ready for Prime Time
LONDON—Enterprise might already be using voice over wireless LAN, but the technology is still far from perfect, admitted networking and telecom executives at this week’s VON Europe conference here. Even the most bullish said that a host of problems, from security to ease-of-use, need to be ironed out before wireless VOIP (voice over IP) can…
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HP Preps Itanium-Powered Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing blade servers that will be powered by Intel Corp.’s Itanium chip, another push by the company to bring 64-bit capability to the dense form factor. The Palo Alto, Calif., company already is on track to roll out in the second half of the year a ProLiant blade server powered by Advanced…
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Oracle Trial: Customers, Integrators Bewail Competition Concerns
SAN FRANCISCO—At the ongoing trial here, the Department of Justice on Wednesday marched PeopleSoft customers and systems integrators into the witness box. The prosecutors hoped to demonstrate how the market for enterprise application software would lose its competitive vibrancy if Oracle was allowed to carry out its hostile buyout of PeopleSoft. Leading off in the…
