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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 2, Number 24 -- June 18, 2003

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid061803.html Sponsored By HEWLETT-PACKARD DEMAND MORE... Demand more from IT than ever before. Demand a new IT architecture that is open, modular and flexible. Demand an alternative to the way IT and IT services have been purchased, implemented and operated. Demand accountability, rather than account control, from your IT partner. Demand HP Sponsored By UNISYS/MICROSOFT JOIN THE ESCAPE FROM UNIX. THE WINDOWS DATA CENTER IS HERE. Featuring the Unisys ES7000 family of servers running new Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, the Windows Data Center is today's Proven alternative to UNIX. It's a solution that brings revolutionary performance and low-cost standardization to the enterprise. For supporting events and case studies, visit our Resource Center at www.WeHaveTheWayOut.com. Looks Like "Madison" Itanium 2 in Late June, Early July by Timothy Prickett Morgan We've all been talking about the future "Madison" Itanium 2 processor from Intel for so long now that it sometimes feels like the processor is already here. Of course, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Group Bull, NEC, and others have been showing off benchmarks on the forthcoming processor in the past few months, but it isn't actually an available product yet. READ MORE > SCO Seeks Injunction to Stop AIX Sales, Linux Could Be Next by Timothy Prickett Morgan The Unix and Linux communities were sitting on pins and needles the other day, as everyone was waiting to see what The SCO Group would do in its escalating legal battle with IBM. On Monday afternoon, SCO filed an amendment to its original lawsuit asking the US District Court of Utah to compel IBM to stop using and distributing AIX and to destroy or return all copies of Unix System V to SCO after revoking its license to Unix. 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HP, JDE Team Up to Push Apps on Wintel Iron by Timothy Prickett Morgan At the Quest Global user conference for users of J.D. Edwards' ERP applications in Denver today, Hewlett Packard Co and JDE will announce that the two companies will start delivering in August a prebundled, preintegrated JDE 5-on-ProLiant solution running on top of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The bundle is targeted at small and midsized shops with 50 to 150 ERP users. READ MORE > Unisys Says Don't Build or Process Without IT Blueprints by Timothy Prickett Morgan What if you could design and model the processes that embody your business with an electronic tool that allowed you to map it onto your IT infrastructure, much as a CAD/CAM program embodies the design of a product and helps turn it into a real product through the manufacturing process? Well, Unisys has come up with a combination of products, services, and methodologies for industries in which it has deep expertise that it says offers this functionality. 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Try it free for 30 days As I See It: Alchemy by Victor Rozek For centuries, wizards, magicians, and kitchen chemists have searched for ways of transforming materials of limited value into gold. With the exception of Coca Cola, little progress has been made toward realizing that dream. Still, the possibility remains fixed in the human psyche; the intriguing and eternal "what if." Of course, we think it's impossible. But, then again, for centuries flight was regarded in generally the same fashion. Yet here we are, cued in long security lines, presenting our shoes for inspection, our sense of wonder replaced by impatience. READ MORE > But Wait, There's More West Virginia Settles Antitrust Case Against Microsoft, Leaving Massachusetts Alone in Its Appeal . . . IBM SEC Probe Probably Not a Big Deal . . . JDE Sues Oracle as PeopleSoft Rejects Oracle's Hostile Takeover Bid . . . M&A Pains Don't Slow J.D. Edwards at Quest Conference . . . New Linux 2.4 Kernel Released, Linux 2.6 Due This Summer . . . Sendmail Partners with HP, Intel for Hardened Mobile E-mail . . . READ MORE > Reader Feedback and Insights More reader feedback on "Rant: Offshoring in the Offing" . . . 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.midrangeserver.com/sub/subscribe.html

THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: Hewlett-Packard Unisys/Microsoft Stalker Software Brooks Internet Software Acucorp Winternals Software BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Looks Like "Madison" Itanium 2 in Late June, Early July SCO Seeks Injunction to Stop AIX Sales, Linux Could Be Next HP, JDE Team Up to Push Apps on Wintel Iron Unisys Says Don't Build or Process Without IT Blueprints As I See It: Alchemy But Wait, There's More

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