Recent Articles
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Review: Intel 915 Chipset-based Motherboards
A couple of weeks ago, we took an in-depth look at five motherboards using the Intel 925X chipset . As a group, we found them to be a bit on the pricey side, with the lowest-cost 925X board, the Abit AA8, at about $160. Not everyone needs the high-priced spread, and it’s not clear what…
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ProIT Express Aims for SMBs
PerformanceIT Inc. hopes to take on larger network management providers vying for the attention of small and midsize business customers by bringing more advanced functions to low-end tools. The Atlanta-based company will take on the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s OpenView Network Node Manager Starter Edition and BMC Software Inc.’s Patrol Express by adding features such…
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Microsoft Stays Pricing Course
By announcing plans to maintain its current per-processor server software licensing, Microsoft Corp. has pleased customers and, in the process, put serious pressure on competing software developers to do the same. The Redmond, Wash., company announced last week that it will keep licensing products in the Windows Server System family—including SQL Server, BizTalk Server and…
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Cheap Server Bundles Bring Flexibility to SMBs
Server makers are continuing to roll out combinations of bundled software and services and scaled-down hardware to give SMBs (small and midsize businesses) the technology they need at a price they can afford. Hewlett-Packard Co. this week is rolling out the newest of its entry-level ProLiant servers, which offer the latest Intel Corp. chips and…
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There’s a New Gaim in Town
As anyone who uses multiple public instant messaging networks knows, running multiple clients on the desktop is too much of a hassle—or was until last month. That’s when the Gaim open-source, multiprotocol IM client project released Version 1.0. Gaim supports not only the three main public IM networks —AOL, Yahoo IM and MSN Messenger—but also…
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AMD’s New Athlon 64: Fast and Pricey
Despite all the recent talk about dual-core processors, it’ll still be a year or more before they’re widely available as desktop CPUs. The march of processor technology comes in many forms: Process size shrinking and materials changing, caches changing, major and minor architectural enhancements, and of course, clock speed increases. The most interesting new CPU…
