Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ

Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ: "Intel's plans were for the Itanium. Paul Otellini said it was a RISC replacement processor, typically running Linux. There are a number of companies who run SAP on Windows where the Itanium fits into the infrastructure nicely. Intel wasn't walking away from the Itanium, he said.�"

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship: " JDA and Intel intend to work cooperatively to ensure that PortfolioEnabled solutions are operationally optimized using advanced, 64-bit computing space with Intel Xeon, Extended Memory 64-bit Technology(TM) and Intel Itanium(TM) processor family-based servers"

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual PC and Virtual Server"

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com: "The Open Source Development Labs, the organization that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has laid off nearly a sixth of its staff as part of a shift to new priorities.
The group cut nine of its 57 staff and contractor positions, Chief Executive Stuart Cohen confirmed Monday. The cuts affected several programmers who worked on the open-source operating system as well as staff in sales, marketing, business development and internal computer operations. "

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com: "Oracle claimed 34.1 percent of the overall market for relational database software, with IBM lording over 33.7 percent--a finish the report considered a dead heat. According to Gartner analysts, the difference between the two vendors was less than $30 million. Microsoft came in third, with a 20 percent share"

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Sandra Morris, 50, "

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "Apple's pricing, which has often been higher than rivals, could become more competitive if Intel were to provide the kind of marketing subsidies it has given to other computer makers, the newspaper said."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Intel, SAP and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), for instance, have linked up to
develop advanced query functions to improve access to information generated by
SAP and other systems."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: " will license
the German company's enterprise services architecture, or ESA, to use in their
products."

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org: "highlights the key difference between WSDL and most of the SSDL protocol framework plugins, namely that SSDL supports rich choreographical metadata."

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register: "to run on its HS20 Xeon-based server"

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools: "He said the open source SPIRAL software, released under the BSD license, addresses the time it takes software developers to fine-tune and update digital signaling processing (DSP) algorithms and libraries according to hardware advancements from Intel, IBM, and other hardware companies. "

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link: "'He was glued to his computer 24/7,' she said tearfully. 'He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating.' "

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com: " 'The most widely referenced result in RFPs'--the requests for proposals by which customers solicit bids--'is TPC-C,' Buggert said. One reason it's useful compared with alternatives such as SAP's SD test is that it not only measures performance, but also provides a ratio of price to performance."

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux: "Looking at the top 25 contributors to the Linux kernel today, you'll discover that more than 90% of them are on the corporate payroll full-time for companies "

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) reduced its tax bill by $24 million in the first quarter, boosting net income by a penny per share above the level it reported on April 19, the world's largest chip maker said on Wednesday.
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'Subsequent to our earnings release on April 19, 2005, we recorded a tax adjustment that reduced the tax provision by $24 million,' the company said in a quarterly filing with U.S. securities regulators. "

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures: "Directory-based Cache Coherence Protocols"

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane: "The X3 strikes a compromise between these two methods and uses a hybrid directory/broadcast mechanism and virtual L4 caches for inter-node traffic, and a snoop filter for intra-node traffic"

My Way News

My Way News: "offshoring required more management effort than they had originally thought"

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill: "'Those are lousy answers. Be in my office in a week with better ones."

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.: "radically restructured database architectures "

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE: "but rather about getting software delivered as a service."

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com: " if you have joined a closed network, you'll see an IP address beginning with 169.254"

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com: "According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting the text.)
The technique used would indeed have protected the data if the document were being read online or printed. However, by an attacker selecting the blacked-out text and using the copy and paste functions, he or she could easily reproduce the document in its entirety on any word-processing application."

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs: "software as a service (SaaS), in which applications are piped over the Internet at a customer's behest, has snowballed in popularity. "

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005: "Intel could now see a path down to the 5-nanometer range."

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register: "Inside Sun Labs "

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does when you run it is to test that all kinds of prerequisites are installed, like IIS and MDAC and VBScript. In order to develop and test that code, I need virtual machines that are missing the prerequisites, so I can test all the code paths."