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November 3, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. News: Sun Ready to Open Solaris
2. News: In Pursuit of Power
3. News: Dell to Offer SuSE Linux-Based PowerEdge Servers
4. News: New Network Appliances Boost ROI, Performance
5. News: India Tech City Promises Help for Firms
6. News: ICANN Board OKs New Internet Domain Names
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Infrastructure
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1. News: Sun Ready to Open Solaris
Sun is getting closer to making its Open Solaris project,
along with the final pieces of Solaris 10, a reality. Get
the story from Sun's quarterly SunNetwork Conference.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1332-14-28-41888-147441-1
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2. News: In Pursuit of Power
NEC has unveiled the SX-8 vector computer, a system with a
peak performance of 65 teraflops, or 65 trillion
calculations per second, company officials claim. That
performance almost doubles that of one of the top machines
in IBM's Blue Gene project, which, in late September, peaked
at 36.01 teraflops, IBM officials said.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1332-14-28-41888-147444-1
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3. News: Dell to Offer SuSE Linux-Based PowerEdge Servers
Dell and Novell announced last Wednesday an agreement
between the two companies to distribute Novell's SuSE Linux
distribution preinstalled on single- and dual-processor Dell
PowerEdge servers. Read more about Novell SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 9 here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1332-14-28-41888-147447-1
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4. News: New Network Appliances Boost ROI, Performance
Packeteer's PacketShaper appliance and Peribit Networks'
updated Sequence Reducer are designed to meet growing user
demand for offerings that cover a range of enterprise WAN
links. Read about them here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1332-14-28-41888-147450-1
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5. News: India Tech City Promises Help for Firms
The top official in this technology hub promised Monday to
improve the city's battered infrastructure, making life
easier for the hundreds of American and European companies
with offices here. Get the story from the Bangalore IT.Com
conference.
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6. News: ICANN Board OKs New Internet Domain Names
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
approved two new Internet domain names--".post" and
".travel"--last week
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