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Sun’s Solaris 10 Finally Ready to Roll
Senior executives from Sun Microsystems Inc. will take the stage Monday at the company’s last quarterly Network Computing event at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., to finally unveil the Solaris 10 operating system, which is scheduled to ship by the end of January 2005. Solaris 10, which Sun officials say reflects…
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Adobe Beefs Up Acrobat Reader in Version 7.0
Adobe Systems Inc. looks to meld its document management platform more firmly into business workflows as the company on Monday announces the next version of its Acrobat document interchange solution. Version 7.0 expands the exchange capabilities of its reader application and features tighter integration with Microsoft Corp.’s productivity and content applications. As with previous versions,…
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Sun to Delay Solaris 10 Pieces
The first production version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris 10 operating system likely will not include two technologies when it ships early next year. Missing will be the 128-bit Solaris ZFS file system and the Janus technology that allows Linux binaries to run natively on Solaris, officials of the Santa Clara, Calif., company said. Click…
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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…
