======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS May 10, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: The Allied Group ======================================================== How much should my company invest in technology? Will these technologies scale to meet future business needs? How do I make technical determinations to meet my business requirements? The Allied Group's Strategic Technology Analysis can help you on your quest for the right answers. Together with VERITAS Software, The Allied Group provides clients with the continuous availability of business-critical information. Register today at http://www.go-allied.com/STA and receive a FREE PDF of our Strategic Technology Analysis. Learn how The Allied Group can help your company gain a competitive advantage through technology. ======================================================== LEAD STORY "Intel or Unix? Customers face a tough choice" Intel or Unix? Intel's more powerful server chips along with Microsoft's tweaking of its OS are making the choice a lot harder for corporations. Some analysts say Windows 2000 has really helped Microsoft become more of a player in the arena of large-scale corporate applications thanks to its stability and scalability. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.idg.net/ic_532818_1794_9-10000.html =============================================== TAKE OUR NEW SURVEY - Don't miss out on your chance to be part of an extensive survey being conducted by searchSolaris and a handful of other techtarget.com sites. Here's your chance to weigh in on what platform or platforms your company uses to run mission-critical applications. 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Sun has seen its workstation sales fall nearly 7% in a year, while HP has seen a 35% drop. SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/News/1121584 =============================================== [2.] "Sun's McNealy: Forecast was wild guess" Sun's Scott McNealy called his company's forecast of 15% revenue growth in 2002 a rough estimate rather than a specific target since IT spending is still a little unpredictable these days. The economy has inspired Sun to make its employees take a week off this summer. SOURCE: Reuters http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5886951.html?tag=lthd =============================================== [3.] "Microsoft sees server growth, no cost worries" Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said his company is looking at the big picture -- a picture that shows server software bringing in wheelbarrows full of cash over the next few years. Ballmer also said his company is gunning for Sun and Oracle. SOURCE: Reuters http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1179341l.htm =============================================== [4.] "Caldera CEO: MS right to shun open source" Penguin proponents got plenty peeved when a Microsoft official dissed open source. But MS has non-MS supporters in its corner. The CEO of Caldera Systems says said he thinks Microsoft was right in its claim that the General Public License doesn't make much business sense and doubts whether companies can build valid, supportable business models around it. SOURCE: eWEEK http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2717264,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest =============================================== [5.] "Novell plans to make directory software free" Free software! Novell hopes to kick up some interest in its technology by giving copies of its directory software to hardware manufacturers, software companies and developers. eDirectory runs on Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris and other Unix flavors. 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