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October 27, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. News: Intel's Barrett: More to Life than Gigahertz
2. News: IBM Transitions to Power5
3. News: New Intel Flash Line Could Bring Price Drop
4. News: EDS Changes Directions, Intends to Show Bias
5. News: Brocade Brings Midrange Switch, Stretches Storage
Fabric
6. News: Cheap Server Bundles Bring Flexibility to SMBs
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1. News: Intel's Barrett: More to Life than Gigahertz
Craig Barrett defends the company's shift in emphasis from
clock speed to multicore designs as he outlines his final
six months as chief executive. Read the interview.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144024-1
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2. News: IBM Transitions to Power5
IBM next month will finish transitioning its core pSeries
and iSeries server lines to the Power5 chip when it starts
shipping three new high-end systems, two of which support
as many as 64 processors. The next challenge for the
company: getting more customers to buy the boxes.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144027-1
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3. News: New Intel Flash Line Could Bring Price Drop
Intel plans to refocus its efforts on the mainstream flash
market with the launch of a new product family early next
year, which analysts said could further undermine already
deteriorating pricing.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144030-1
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4. News: EDS Changes Directions, Intends to Show Bias
Electronic Data Systems is choosing favorites. In an
announcement from the Gartner ITxpo, the $20 billion a year
computer systems integrator said that it is forming an
"agility" alliance that will create a computing platform
based on products from Dell, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft,
Sun Microsystems and Xerox. Read more about this alliance.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144033-1
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5. News: Brocade Brings Midrange Switch, Stretches Storage
Fabric
Brocade Communications Systems has announced a 4 Gbit per
second, 32-port switch, paving the way for the coming 4
Gbit/sec technology due to hit the streets within the next
few months. Get the details here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144036-1
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6. News: 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 the technology they need at a price they can
afford. Check out the latest offerings.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1301-14-28-41888-144039-1
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