Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled: "Early on in February, Microsoft let loose with Release Candidate 2, and let it be known that they are right on track for a final version before the end of June 2005. "

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com: "Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA)"

SMASH simplifies server management

SMASH simplifies server management: "SMASH simplifies server management"

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "The Open Management Interface "

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM), an industry initiative in the enterprise management field"

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management: "WSDL bears many similarities to the interface definition language (IDL) in CORBA, COM+, and Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE) styles of computing"

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE: "Don Box basically invented SOAP, the most inefficient and verbose marshalling format in the history of computer science.So, pleeeeze, don't let the guy out on the language arena."

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com: "Another source familiar with the situation said IBM won't release a server using Intel's next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Montecito and expected to boost performance significantly upon arrival at the end of 2005. "

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies: "'But when it comes to humans, the ideal occlusion [the way teeth fit together] is virtually never seen. It's really the only body part that regularly needs attention and surgery.' "

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men: "$800 an inch more annually for the taller worker"

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com: "And several others besides Intel have their own Itanium chipsets: Silicon Graphics, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Unisys and Itanium co-developer Hewlett-Packard. "

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks: "In February 2005, the HP ProLiant DL585 server posted yet another leading 4-way x86 result. The ProLiant DL585 achieved 130,623 tpmC@$2.80/tpmC running the TPC-C benchmark, Spec. Rev. 5.3"

My Way News

My Way News: "San Francisco-based Six Apart provides two widely used blogging tools - a software publishing program, Movable Type, and a hosted service, TypePad, for people who don't want to do the technological grunt work themselves.
Boosted by the recent takeover of another blogging service called LiveJournal"

IBM Discovers The Power Of One

IBM Discovers The Power Of One: " The chip and computer units would be combined. Rather than manufacturing all kinds of chips for 400 customers, IBM would focus primarily on one family of chips, its well-regarded Power microprocessors. I"

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT: "The fate of Windows NT on the PowerPC and the future direction of the PowerPC hinge on the availability of native PowerPC NT applications and on a price/performance edge over Intel. Motorola and IBM, the manufacturers of the PowerPC chip, recognize the connection between NT application support and the PowerPC's direction. "

Tom Yager

Tom Yager: "I'm certain that Windows for PowerPC is running now within Microsoft"

Sun shuns Intel | The Register

Sun shuns Intel | The Register: "Sun has managed to become the number one seller of Opteron gear, beating out HP's ProLiant line and IBM's box. It, however, remains a minor player in the x86 server market as a whole."

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology: "At the Enterprise Linux Summit, Andrew Morton -- Linus Torvalds' right-hand man and maintainer of the Linux kernel for the Open Source Development Labs (ODSL) -- said he will incorporate the Xen virtualization code 'in the near future"

Intel Adds Power to Pentium

Intel Adds Power to Pentium: "Brace said that by the end of the first quarter 80% of Xeon shipments will have 64-bit capabilities. Intel will launch a new version of its 64-bit Xeon at the end of this month with an expanded 2 megabytes of level 2 cache."

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Cell contains 234 million transistors and takes up 221 square millimeters in the 90-nanometer production process. That's about double the size of the 90-nanometer 3.6GHz Pentium 4, with 112 square millimeters and 125 million transistors. "
Cell comes with an integrated memory controller for high-performance XDR memory from Rambus--which means that the current design works exclusively with this pricey stuff.

My Way News

My Way News: " they would immediately begin a search for a permanent replacement"

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com: "Silicon Graphics Inc. already sells Linux servers that have a single copy of Linux running on as many as 2,048 processors, "

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005: "Intel will publish the details of Foxton in a paper it's presenting at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. It will also describe power-saving technology called demand-based switching that works with Windows to reduce energy consumption when a server isn't stressed. Both technologies will debut when Intel releases its next-generation Itanium chip, code-named Montecito, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter"