Midrange Server Windows & Linux Edition, May 1, 2002

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Windows & Linux Edition
Volume 1, Number 13 - May 1, 2002

In This Issue

Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week
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Breaking News: Microsoft to Buy Navision?

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Just as this newsletter was going to press last night, a story surfaced in the Financial Times of London that Microsoft was getting ready to acquire European application software vendor Navision for $1.2 billion. Such an acquisition, if it does indeed take place, would be Microsoft's second big application software buy, after the $1 billion acquisition of Great Plains Software at the end of 2000. Microsoft would not confirm the rumor, and all Navision would say that it is entertaining offers.

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IBM Talks Up Xcalibur Blade Server Strategy

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Like most of the server vendors who are threatened by the advent of blade computing, IBM was taken a little off guard by the explosion of demand for ultradense rack-mounted servers even as the dot-com bubble was bursting. It seems that corporations, coping with high system management costs and server sprawl, are looking for the modular, dense server designs that were once thought only necessary for dot-coms and service providers. That is what IBM's BladeCenter servers, code-named "Xcalibur," are all about.

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Server Market Stabilizes In Q1, Says Gartner

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The analysts at market researcher Gartner's Dataquest unit think that the server market may have finally stabilized, with the possible exception of Hewlett-Packard, which has seen its server shipments stall as customers and resellers contemplated and considered the impact of the HP merger with Compaq . HP server shipments in the United States plummeted by 31.5 percent and fell by 13.3 percent on a worldwide basis in the first quarter of 2002.

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Intel and AMD Baptize New 64-Bit Processors

by Alex Woodie

Intel and AMD last week gave proper names to the 64-bit processors they plan to ship later this year and early next year. Intel's development of its second generation 64-bit processor has gone by the code name "McKinley," but when the processor becomes available later this year, it will be known as Itanium 2. And AMD's 64-bit development effort, which has been codenamed "Hammer," will spawn a processor for use in multiprocessor servers called Opteron.

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BCD to Offer Java Deployment Option with WebSmart

by Alex Woodie

It's becoming a big, bad Java world, and Business Computer Design Int'l is right there with it. BCD's ProGen WebSmart development environment has helped programmers to create dynamic Web applications that run as ILE RPG-based CGI programs on AS/400 and iSeries servers. Now BCD is adding Java-generation capabilities to WebSmart, which will allow developers to take the same WebSmart applications they created as CGI scripts for OS/400 and deploy them with Java to practically any platform, including Windows and Linux servers.

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