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Windows & Linux Edition
Volume 1, Number 19 -- June 12, 2002
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Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week
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Oracle, Red Hat, HP Gang Up on Real Application Clusters
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Database vendor Oracle, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat, and server vendor Hewlett-Packard last week announced that they have teamed up to deliver ready-to-run clusters based on Oracle's Real Application Clusters middleware for Oracle 9i and running on Red Hat's Advanced Server and HP's ProLiant DL580 servers. Real Application Clusters is new the cluster-enabled version of Oracle 9i that employs clustering technology from HP's Tru64 Unix operating system, with features that have been ported to Linux with Red Hat's help. READ MORE >

IBM Sells Disk Biz, But Vows to Fight On in Storage
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

After months of intensive negotiations, IBM has inked an agreement that will see the company exit the hard disk drive business that it established in 1956. Hitachi has acquired nearly all of IBM's intellectual property, research, manufacturing, and sales resources associated with the disk drive business for $2.05 billion. While IBM is exiting the disk drive business, it has vowed that it will continue to be an aggressive maker of disk arrays and other products that incorporate disks. READ MORE >

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Dell/EMC Alliance To Bare New Clariion Fruit
by Alex Woodie

Dell could have a new disk array based on EMC's Clariion array to sell to its customers. At an EMC analyst meeting last week, the Hopkinton, Massachusetts, company said that it is working with its alliance partner Dell to develop new low-cost versions of EMC's Clariion array that Dell can manufacture and sell. Although details have not yet been finalized and the deal has not been signed by both parties, the pact fits in well with EMC's plan to pursue new markets. READ MORE >

Sage to Bring ERP Suite to Linux on IBM's xSeries Servers
by Alex Woodie

English software powerhouse Sage Group, the fifth largest ERP vendor in the world according to AMR Research, gave enterprise Linux a serious boost when it recently signed a partnership agreement with IBM to port its largest line of business software, Line 500, from Microsoft Windows to Linux and to run it on xSeries servers. READ MORE >



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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Oracle, Red Hat, HP Gang Up on Real Application Clusters

IBM Sells Disk Biz, But Vows to Fight On in Storage

Dell/EMC Alliance To Bare New Clariion Fruit

Sage to Bring ERP Suite to Linux on IBM's xSeries Servers



Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan

Managing Editor
Mari Barrett

Contributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Joe Hertvik
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Hesh Wiener
Alex Woodie

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