Midrange Server, Windows & Linux Edition, for October 30, 2002

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 1, Number 37 -- October 30, 2002

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid103002.html Sponsored By HEWLETT-PACKARD You have to stay one step ahead of the competition. Wouldn't it be nice if your infrastructure could help get you there? It can, with ProLiant server technologies from HP. Reliable. Scalable. Manageable. And built on industry standards. So your infrastructure can adapt to change just as quickly as you do. For more information, visit www.hp.com, or call 1.800.282.6672, option 5. 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. Dataquest: Server Market Still Shaky Despite 3Q Gains by Alex Woodie Gartner's Dataquest unit said Monday the world's server market remains in a funk despite the fact that the number of servers shipped during the third quarter increased by 3.1 percent worldwide and 12.2 percent in the United States compared to last year. Dataquest said the September 11 attacks make last year's third quarter a poor barometer for comparisons, and said the possibility of war in the Middle East is contributing to poor IT purchasing conditions today. READ MORE > HP to Put Two Itaniums in One CPU Slot by Timothy Prickett Morgan Hewlett-Packard is by far the staunchest supporter of the 64-bit Itanium chip, aside from Intel, and it has staked the future of its enterprise server business to a large extent to Itanium. But Itanium is, as we all know, running late and underperforming compared to plan. HP has an innovative fix for this, the company divulged last week: It is going to plug two Itanium chips into a single CPU slot in its servers. READ MORE > Linux 2.6 Coming in Mid-2003, Or So by Timothy Prickett Morgan The word on the street--or rather on the cruise ship--is that the next commercial version of Linux, based on the 2.6 kernel, will be available some time in the second quarter of 2003. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel that is at the heart of the operating system, said so at the Geek Cruise Linux Lunacy II conference, which was held in the Caribbean last week and attended by a--pardon the metaphor--boatload of Linux contributors. READ MORE > Dell, EMC Launch Entry CX200 Disk Arrays by Timothy Prickett Morgan Only three weeks ago, Dell and EMC announced the midrange CX400 disk arrays that they co-developed and co-branded, and at the time they hinted that an entry disk arrays was imminent. Indeed it was, since the CX200 array was announced this week. This entry CX200 array, which bears the same Dell | EMC logo as the other CX arrays, scales to 2.2 TB of capacity, has a data transfer rate of 200 MB/sec, and has a starting price of $28,000. READ MORE > Reader Feedback and Insights We value your feedback and your insights into the Windows and Linux server markets. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. We will consider your letter a candidate for the reader feedback column associated with this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your email public. 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 ISSUE SPONSORED BY: Hewlett-Packard Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Dataquest: Server Market Still Shaky Despite 3Q Gains HP to Put Two Itaniums in One CPU Slot Linux 2.6 Coming in Mid-2003, Or So Dell, EMC Launch Entry CX200 Disk Arrays 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 Advertising Sales Representative Kim Reed Contact the Editors Do you have a gripe, inside dope or an opinion? Email the editors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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