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Long-Awaited "Foster" Xeon MP Chips
Announced
by Timothy Prickett
Morgan
Just as we were going
to press, Intel
finally announced that it had gotten the long-awaited "Foster"
Pentium 4 Xeon MP processors, now simply called the Xeon MPs,
out the door for midrange and enterprise Wintel and Lintel
servers. The Fosters were originally expected to debut about
this time last year, but were pushed out again and again as
Intel worked on bugs in the chip and perfected its 0.13 micron
chip-making process. Server vendors expect to be able to start
shipping machines using the Fosters in mid-April.
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Sun Launches Antitrust Lawsuit Against
Microsoft
by Timothy Prickett
Morgan
Hoping to piggyback on
the on-going antitrust lawsuit between the U.S. government and
Microsoft
to exact punishment on its archrival in the software business,
Sun Microsystems
last Friday launched its own antitrust lawsuit against
Microsoft in the U.S. District Court in San Jose. The lawsuit
relies heavily on the rulings of the district and appeals
courts in the U.S.-Microsoft case, and Sun is expected to seek
damages in excess of $1 billion.
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Microsoft Chief Says States' Sanctions
Would Break Windows
by Kristin Palitza
Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer said the software giant would have to withdraw
the Windows operating system from the market, if a federal
court approves the sanctions proposed by the nine states
involved in the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. The
remedy proposal erodes the economical value of the operating
system, he argued. Microsoft released a 143-page legal
deposition from Ballmer that was conducted last month. Under
questioning by a lawyer representing the states, Ballmer said
he would not "know how to comply with" the litigating states'
proposal. "We would need to withdraw the Windows product from
the marketplace," Ballmer said.
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Mission Critical Linux Axes 90 Percent of
Workforce
by Kristin Palitza
Once promising
Linux-developer Mission Critical
Linux (MCLX) had to lay off 90 percent of its workforce,
or 60 employees, after it failed to sell its business last
week. The company cut off its entire services and consulting
arm to focus solely on product development. "We need to
concentrate on making money; it's a tough business
environment," founder Moiz Kohari told Midrange Server.
The company plans to put all its resources into improving its
Convolo high-availability clustering technology. Convolo comes
in two variations, DataGuard and NetGuard, both Linux high-end
clusters to prevent server locks through failover
capabilities.
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IBM Dreams Itself to the Top of the Web
Services World
by Kristin
Palitza
If
you had to use a single word to describe IBM's Web services vision, it
would be heterogeneity. IBM claims it is committed to this
strategy and willing to cooperate with its rivals if that is
what it takes to keep ahead of the competition. "Web services
will be published by one, but have to be readable by all,"
said John Swainson, general manager for application and
integration at IBM's middleware division, at the company's Web
Services Day last week.
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IBM Neutral on Passport vs. Liberty
Security Efforts for Now
by Kristin
Palitza
IBM will not take a
stance on the application security efforts of Microsoft's Passport
technology and Sun
Microsystems' Liberty Alliance Project--at least for the
moment. IBM says it will wait until one or the other matures.
It will take at least another few months until Passport and
Liberty are far enough evolved for IBM to decide which one it
wants to go with, said Arvind Krishna, vice president of
security products for IBM's Tivoli division, at the company's
Web Services Day last week.
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