Midrange Server, Windows & Linux Edition, for February 12, 2003

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 2, Number 6 -- February 12, 2003

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midranges erver.com/mid/mid021203.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 STALKER SOFTWARE COMMUNIGATE PRO MAIL SERVER * Proven Reliability and Scalability * Integrated, easy-to-maintain E-mail and collaboration solution * Standards based messaging protocols -- POP, IMAP, HTTP, and SMTP * Web Based E-mail and Administration * Central Directory and LDAP Services * Secure (SSL/TLS) connections * Advanced Spam and Anti-virus protection * Over 30 supported OS/hardware combinations FREE TRIAL: www.stalker.com Sun Enters the Blade Server Fray by Timothy Prickett Morgan Sun Microsystems jumped onto the commercial blade server bandwagon this week with the announcement of it Sun Fire Blade Platform, which consists of the BL1600 blade chassis and the BL100 blade servers. Sun has been selling blade servers based on the Compact PCI (cPCI) standard for years, in its Netra line of specialized servers for telecommunications companies and other service providers. The new Sun Fire blades are, like blades from Hewlett-Packard and IBM, based on non-cPCI, proprietary designs. READ MORE > AMD, Intel Float New Server, Workstation Chips by Timothy Prickett Morgan Advanced Micro Devices last week announced a speed bump on its Athlon MP 2600+ processor for two-way workstations and servers and debuted the forthcoming Athlon XP 3000+ processor, based on the new "Barton" core. These new processors are aimed squarely at keeping the heat on Intel's Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Xeon DP processors, which are still the dominant chips for workstations and entry servers. And while Intel hasn't officially announced a beefed up Xeon DP, a 3.06 GHz version of the chip is out there for sale, unofficially. READ MORE > 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. U.S. Server Sales Up 5.1 Percent in Q4, Says Gartner by Timothy Prickett Morgan Analysts at Gartner's Dataquest market research unit released shipment statistics a few weeks ago for the server market for 2002, which this newsletter went through in detail last week. This week, Dataquest has announced revenue figures for the U.S. market, which show sales were up 5.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002, and up 10.6 percent sequentially from Q3 2002. Sales of Intel-based machines are soon going to surpass sales of RISC/Unix servers, and Linux sales doubled. READ MORE > Shaking IT Up: The Application Development Death Cycle by Kevin Vandever How many of you perform specification reviews, code walk-throughs, and quality assurance testing in your organization? Have you looked closely at those processes lately? You may want to, because most of them have been infected with a terrible disease and it could be killing your ability to provide quality software to your customers and users. Simply having a process in place could cause this disease. So what's the cure? READ MORE > ASNApalooza Contest Winner Announced! OS/400 programmer Richard Brown is about to find out what it's like to program in the Microsoft .NET environment. Next month, in San Antonio, Brown will attend ASNApalooza, the best place for OS/400 programmers to learn about Microsoft's .NET, Visual Studio environment, and database connectivity. During the month of January, Midrange Server and ASNA cosponsored the educational gateway leading up to the conference, scheduled for March 5 through 7. Brown, of Reno, Nevada, was randomly chosen from a list of Midrange Server newsletter subscribers who expressed an interest in the free educational opportunity. He has attended ASNA's annual users conference in the past but had not planned to attend this year because of budgetary cutbacks. Much of the 2003 ASNApalooza will focus on the underpinnings of .NET, and what it offers OS/400 programmers, through using ASNA Visual RPG. ASNA Visual RPG for .NET is an RPG development environment for the .NET platform. ASNApalooza session topics include XML, DLL, SQL, .NET coding exercises for Windows and the Web, and browser-based user interfaces. Click here for more information on ASNApalooza. Reader Feedback and Insights We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. 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 > Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription Information: To unsubscribe, change your email address, or sign up for any of Midrange Server's free e-newsletters, visit http://www.midranges erver.com/sub/subscribe.html

THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: Hewlett-Packard Stalker Software Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Sun Enters the Blade Server Fray AMD, Intel Float New Server, Workstation Chips U.S. Server Sales Up 5.1 Percent in Q4, Says Gartner Shaking IT Up: The Application Development Death Cycle

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