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Red
Hat Advanced Server Takes on Unix, Microsoft Advanced
Server
by Timothy
Prickett Morgan
Red Hat announced the
Advanced Server edition of its commercial Linux distribution
just before press time last week. Advanced Server is aimed
squarely at two targets. The first is, of course, Microsoft's
midrange Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The second target is
Unix customers who want to use Linux, which runs on cheaper
iron, but do not want to deal with weekly patches to the OS,
or with the persistent scalability limitations of Linux 2.4.
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Microsoft,
Unisys Campaign Fights Unix with Allied Datacenter
Server-ES7000
by
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Everybody makes goofs,
gaffs, and pratfalls in business, and Unisys and Microsoft are no
exceptions. In launching a $25 million marketing campaign
against Unix, dubbed "We Have The Way Out," Unisys and
Microsoft forgot to make sure that the Web site for the
campaign was running Windows. It was running FreeBSD, a Unix
variant, and when the story broke on April Fools' Day, there
was much giggling.
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Sun's
McNealy Jabs at Microsoft While Opening Up Java a Bit
More
by Dan
Burger
The
often flamboyant and entertaining Scott McNealy, chairman and
CEO of Sun
Microsystems, took on the tone of President Bush at the
JavaOne conference in San Francisco last week. McNealy's axis
of evil is clearly defined as Microsoft and its
proprietary .NET strategy. In his role as leader of the free
world--as represented by Java--McNealy wanted his captive
audience of Java developers to know he was counting on them to
back the open-source community in what is essentially a battle
of good versus evil.
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SilverStream
Tackles New WSFL Spec
by Alex Woodie
SilverStream, one of
the vendors of Web application servers and J2EE development
tools trying to make a go of it against formidable competition
from IBM and BEA Systems,
announced the general availability of new software last week.
Leading a gaggle of new product releases in SilverStream's
lineup is eXtend Composer 3.5, which features a new
business-process-manager module for integrating existing
business logic into new e-business applications, and support
for the new Web Services Flow Language.
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IDION
Takeover May Be Tough for DataMirror
by Timothy Prickett
Morgan
Midrange
high-availability and data-integration software vendor DataMirror's
hostile takeover of rival Vision Solutions,
which is owned by South African company IDION Technology Holdings, is
perhaps a more complex deal than DataMirror has bargained for.
As we reported last
week in The Four Hundred newsletter , DataMirror
offered to pay $6.2 million in cash to acquire IDION, but the
company is already worth substantially more than that since
the takeover offer was announced--apparently somewhat
prematurely--on March 18.
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As
I See It: Manipulating Money
by Victor Rozek
Quantum computing is
based on subatomic particles called qubits, which have a very
unusual aptitude. Qubits are able to spin clockwise and
counterclockwise at the same time. But only if they are not
being observed. In that regard, qubits are like corporations,
which also exhibit paradoxical behavior. On the one hand they
want to appear profitable, to attract and keep investors; on
the other, they must also appear unprofitable, to limit tax
liability. Such alchemy is best conducted when no one is
watching.
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