Midrange Server Windows & Linux Edition, for August 28, 2002

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 1, Number 28 -- August 28, 2002

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid082802.html Sponsored By ASNA Download your FREE copy of award-winning ASNA Visual RPG today! Do you have to learn a whole new language to create effective Web & Windows applications? No! With ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) you can use your existing RPG skills to create powerful and dynamic Web and Windows apps without a huge learning curve. Download your FREE copy of ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) and get started today with the included "Smarties" tutorial: http://www.asna.com/downloads.asp Sponsored By ACUCORP Acucorp is a leading developer of application extension solutions running on over 600 platforms such as Linux. These extend5 solutions include a powerful ANSI COBOL compiler, an integrated development environment, web deployment technology, seamless interfaces to RDBMS, COBOL-based GUI development, distributed processing and client/server technology. For more information, visit www.acucorp.com. Turbolinux Sells Linux OS Biz, Caldera Changes Name to SCO Group by Timothy Prickett Morgan It's been a busy couple of days in the commercial Linux distributor business. First, Turbolinux announced last week that it has sold that Linux business to Software Research Associates, one of the oldest software developers in Japan. Then early this week Caldera International, the merger between Linux distributor Caldera and the former Unix operating system provider Santa Cruz Operation, announced that it was changing its name to The SCO Group and presumably moving some of its focus back to Unix. READ MORE > Compaq Adds Dual-Processor Blades to ProLiant BLs by Timothy Prickett Morgan Hewlett-Packard this week announced that it has delivered the first dual-processor blade servers for inclusion in its "QuickBlade" ProLiant BL line. Up until now, HP has only been able to deliver uniprocessor blades in these machines, and the advent of dual-processor blades will, HP hopes, allow the company to expand the use of its blade servers from relatively light infrastructure workloads like print, file, and Web serving to application serving and maybe even lightweight database serving. READ MORE > Dell Ships $600 Small Business Server by Alex Woodie Dell on Monday announced two new additions to its PowerEdge line of servers with preloaded Windows or Linux operating systems. The low-end PowerEdge 600SC is a uni-processor tower that Dell has priced extraordinarily low--it starts at $599--in hopes of attracting small business customers, while the PowerEdge 2600, with up to two Intel Xeon processors, is geared toward workgroup and departmental computing. READ MORE > Microsoft Readies New Web Services Tools by Alex Woodie Microsoft is forging ahead on different fronts to bring its .NET Framework to fruition. On Monday, Microsoft announced a beta release of the Web Services Development Kit, a collection of APIs that allow Visual Studio.NET programmers to incorporate new Web services specifications developed by Microsoft, IBM, and others, into Web services applicationss. The Redmond, Washington, software giant is also readying the next release of its Visual Studio .NET development environment, code-named "Everett," for availability early next year. READ MORE > Reader Feedback and Insights We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter. READ MORE > Subscription Information: To unsubscribe, change your email address, or sign up for any of Midrange Server's free e-newsletters, visit http://www.midrangeserver.com/sub/subscribe.html This page is best viewed at 800x600 with Netscape or IE browsers 4 or higher.

THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: ASNA Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Turbolinux Sells Linux OS Biz, Caldera Changes Name to SCO Group Compaq Adds Dual-Processor Blades to ProLiant BLs Dell Ships $600 Small Business Server Microsoft Readies New Web Services Tools Editor Timothy Prickett Morgan Managing Editor Mari Barrett Contributing Editors: Dan Burger Joe Hertvik Shannon O'Donnell Victor Rozek Hesh Wiener Alex Woodie Publisher and Advertising Director Jenny Delroy Contact the Editors Do you have a gripe, inside dope or an opinion? Email the editors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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