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Gateway Unit Built on BTX Chassis
Gateway is rolling out the first of its business desktops that use the BTX model developed by Intel. Compared with the traditional ATX model, BTX puts all the hottest components—from processors to graphics cards—in the center of the chassis, where they can be cooled by a front-to-back airflow. The result is more reliable, more energy-efficient…
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Honing Blade Management
System makers are enhancing their blade servers with new technology that brings better performance and flexibility to the dense form factors. RLX Technologies Inc. last week began shipping the SB6400, the sixth generation of its blade systems that feature Intel Corp.’s “Nocona” Xeon processors. The chips offer Intel’s EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology), enabling them…
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IBM Workplace Changes in Store
IBM’s Lotus software division is readying a host of improvements that will bring its fledgling Workplace messaging and collaboration platform closer to feature parity with its flagship Lotus Notes and Domino product line. While company officials maintain that Workplace and Notes and Domino will remain separate product lines running on parallel development tracks, the planned…
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Novell Open Source Carries on Without Stone
The abrupt resignation of Novell Inc. Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the company’s relationships with the open-source and Linux communities. Stone, an executive with Novell since March 2002, was the force behind the Waltham, Mass., company’s push into Linux and open-source software, as well as its acquisitions of…
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Web Conference Pricing Shaking Out
Pricing for hosted Web conferencing services still runs the gamut—from limited seats and minutes per room per month with per-minute overage charges to pay-by-the-minute services. In general, however, the pricing foci of new Web conferencing systems has been on flat, per-month usage pricing or pairing Web conferencing with other services, such as instant messaging or…
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3Com Recommits to Switches
This week 3Com Corp. will roll out the elements it needs to compete in the large-enterprise network market but still needs to gain recognition as a contender. The Marlboro, Mass., company will introduce its terabit-speed Switch 8800 core LAN switch, along with 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules for its Switch 7700 and SuperStack 3 3870 distribution…
