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IBM Acquires Virtualization Software Company CIMS Lab
IBM is growing its virtualization capabilities with the acquisition of CIMS Lab, a private company whose software enables businesses to track the use of their IT resources in a virtualized environment. IBM announced the acquisition Jan. 25. No financial details were released. The deal comes at a time when IBM can virtualize about 80 percent…
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Industry Leaders Question Microsoft’s Source Code Move
Microsoft’s decision to license all the Windows Server source code that applies to the antitrust requirements set out in the European Commission judgment against it has received a lukewarm response at best from competitors and trade groups. “With today’s announcement, Microsoft has supplemented the existing resources with a new license for all of the Windows…
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Intel Gets on Its Way to 45 Nanometers
Intel said it has reached an important milestone on the path to rolling out the next generation of chip manufacturing in 2007. The chip giant said on Jan. 25 that it has completed a test chip using its forthcoming 45-nanometer process, dubbed P1266, which it expects to roll out in the second half of 2007.…
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Intel Drops Hardware-Based 32-Bit Capabilties in Itanium
Intel Corp. is removing the hardware circuitry in the upcoming next-generation Itanium 2 chip that lets users run 32-bit applications on the 64-bit processor, leaving those duties to the chip maker’s emulation software. The dual-core “Montecito” chip will be the first Itanium processor not to offer the hardware circuitry, said Intel spokesperson Erica Fields. The…
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Mandriva, HP Launch Latin American Linux Partnership
On Wednesday, Mandriva announced that it was partnering with Hewlett-Packard Co. to distribute HP desktop computers pre-loaded with Mandriva Linux 2006 to 37 countries in Latin America. As part of the agreement, Mandriva was also named the “Preferred Linux Partner for Latin America” and Mandriva Linux 2006 has been optimized and certified for HP machines.…
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HP Adds Distributors to PartnerOne Program
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Monday that seven distributor partners have been added to the company’s channel sales program, PartnerOne. Brought on primarily to serve HP’s business-level partners, the distributors that have earned the PartnerOne Distributor designation are Agilysys Inc., Arrow Electronics Inc., Avnet Inc., Bell Microproducts Inc., Ingram Micro Inc., Synnex Corp. and Tech Data Corp.…
