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Broadmargin Curtails Telecom Costs
At U.S.Bancorp, the monthly bill from one telecommunications supplier is so large that it typically arrives in 12 boxes. That supplier is just one of more than 300 telecom providers serving the bank. Spending roughly $13 million on telecom services each month, the eighth-largest bank in the country found it could no longer manage the…
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Eclipse Moves Ahead
The Eclipse open-source development platform entered a new era last week. At the first Eclipse developer conference here, leading Eclipse developers praised the newly independent Eclipse organization and offered glimpses of things to come in the next version of the platform, 3.0. Erich Gamma, Java Development Tools leader for Eclipse, and John Wiegand, Eclipse platform…
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Microsoft Building Integration, Management into ‘Longhorn’ Server
Microsoft Corp. is hard at work to make “Longhorn,” the next iteration of its Windows Server product, do more for less by integrating various server software systems. To do it, the company plans to extend .Net’s capabilities even further with common execution environments and complete .Net Common Language Runtime support, said Valerie Olague, a Windows…
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Chips Find Home in Sun, HP Servers
The future of computing is 64-bit, and that future is now. That is according to high-end server manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc., both of which are readying 64-bit server rollouts. HP’s new systems and processors are designed to consolidate some of the company’s existing 64-bit server technology onto Intel Corp.’s Itanium processor, while…
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Oracle Trims Low-End Prices
With its long-awaited Oracle 10g database out the door, Oracle Corp. is altering its entry-level pricing, processor support and clustering option in an effort to make the new technology appeal to small and midtier customers. The Redwood Shores, Calif., software company last week announced availability of 10g versions for Linux, 64-bit Solaris and HP-UX. A…
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Juniper to Acquire NetScreen for $4 Billion
In another sign that the security market—and technology sector in general—is on the rebound, Juniper Networks Inc. on Monday agreed to acquire security appliance maker NetScreen Technologies Inc. for $4 billion in stock. The purchase price is a premium of more than 50 percent for NetScreen’s shareholders. The company’s stock was trading at $26.40 at…
