Midrange Server, Windows & Linux Edition, for February 19, 2003

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 2, Number 7 -- February 19, 2003

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid021903.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 HP Talks Up Its Itanium Plans At Intel Developer Forum by Timothy Prickett Morgan Hewlett-Packard has from the very beginning been the most loyal and enthusiastic supporter of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor family, and yesterday, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, California, HP staked its future in the midrange and enterprise server space on a new chipset for Itaniums and a new method of doubling up Itanium processors in a server without substantial changes in servers that support Itanium 2 chips. READ MORE > HP Announces Next-Generation Eight-Way Xeon Servers by Timothy Prickett Morgan Customers who have been using the current crop of Pentium III Xeon eight-way servers, which are based on the "Profusion" chipset developed by Intel and the former Compaq (now part of Hewlett-Packard), got some breathing space as HP announced its "F8" chipset for Pentium 4 Xeon MP servers. The new machines, which use the 2 GHz "Gallatin" series of Xeon MP chips, offer up to 66 percent more OLTP power than the current 900 MHz Pentium III Xeons and the Profusion chipset. 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. IBM Sells 5,000 Blade Servers, Fleshes Out Future Plans by Timothy Prickett Morgan IBM may not be one of the first companies to enter the nascent blade server market, but it has undoubtedly found a lot of prospective tire kickers, early adopters, and enthusiasts for the blade server concept. The company says that it has shipped 5,000 blade servers in the 10 weeks that it has been shipping product, and that it is talking up its future plans for the BladeCenter platform, including four-way 32-bit Xeon MP and two-way 64-bit Power and Itanium blades. READ MORE > EMC Launches New Symmetrix DMX Disk Arrays by Alex Woodie EMC, the storage hardware vendor that has been dogged by declining sales since the dot-com blowout, pulled a rabbit out of its hat two weeks ago and announced a radical redesign of its high-end Symmetrix disk array based on its new high-speed Direct Matrix (DMX) architecture. The new arrays can be linked to and shared by Windows, Linux, Unix, and other platforms, and represent EMC's attempt to get back in the driver's seat in enterprise storage. READ MORE > As I See It: Process As Our Most Important Product by Victor Rozek If modeling a modern corporation after the ancient city-state of Athens ("As I See It: The View from the Ivy") seems a more whimsical than practical way to accommodate the needs of knowledge workers, the concept of fair process offers a more immediate possibility of realization. Although fair process bears little resemblance to the slow, messy workings of a participatory democracy, it does share one commonality that will be immediately appealing to management: It is not directly concerned with fair outcomes. READ MORE > But Wait, There's More. . . Microsoft Readies "Everett" Visual Studio.NET 2003, Hints at Future "Whidbey" Release in 2004 . . . Microsoft Wants Patent for .NET . . . IBM Ships First Xperanto Data Tools . . . Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS 5.0 . . . EXE Technologies Accuses Manhattan Associates of Unfair Business Practices in Suit . . . Document Management Brings ROI in Nucleus Study . . . California Software Announces LPS 6.5 . . . Sterling Commerce to Deliver EAI for Windows in 2003 . . . READ MORE > 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? 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THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: Hewlett-Packard Stalker Software Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS HP Talks Up Its Itanium Plans At Intel Developer Forum HP Announces Next-Generation Eight-Way Xeon Servers IBM Sells 5,000 Blade Servers, Fleshes Out Future Plans EMC Launches New Symmetrix DMX Disk Arrays As I See It: Process As Our Most Important Product But Wait, There's More. . .

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