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Review: Presto Instant-On Revives Old PCs
Despite the hype, despite the value and despite the technology, Linux hasn’t made a significant impact on the desktop PC market. Sure, there are exceptions and some low-end PCs or netbooks come with Linux preinstalled, but for the most part Microsoft Windows rules supreme on the PC. Xandros is taking a new approach to fuel…
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Mac OS X Gains, Windows Loses Market Share
After a February market share gain, March saw Windows market share drop again, when more users jumped ship from Windows XP than picked up Vista, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications. Apple Mac OS X, on the other hand, gained market share for the first time since January, the firm reported. In March, Net…
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Gartner and Forrester Now Forecast 2009 Decline in IT Spending
Market research firms Gartner and Forrester are now forecasting what channel resellers have known for a while – the economy amid the current recession is even gloomier than previously thought. Gartner’s newly revised forecast for 2009 now says that global spending on information technology (IT) will decline by 3.8 percent. The change represents just the…
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Rackable Systems to Acquire SGI for $25M Cash
Data center server and storage vendor Rackable Systems plans to acquire all the assets of once mighty Silicon Graphics for approximately $25 million in cash, Rackable Systems announced Wednesday morning. The announcement coincides with Silicon Graphics filing again for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rackable Systems said in a prepared statement announcing the deal that the combined…
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Intel’s New Nehalem Drives Virtualization, Cloud Computing
Intel’s touting its latest Nehalem EP-based quad-core processors as the biggest platform advancement in 10 years, aiming to provide organizations with enhanced virtualization and cloud computing capabilities. Analysts say virtualization and cloud computing are major drivers for future server demand, and Gartner predicts virtualization will be the top technology initiative customers undertake this year. >>…