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3Com’s WLAN Tools Boost SMBs
Small-business customers that need enterprise-level features but can’t afford enterprise-level prices have new options from 3Com Corp. Rolling out through the fall, the products include a travel access router, a wireless print server, a high-speed PC Card adapter and two access points. “The way we position ourselves is to deliver enterprise-class products to SMBs [small…
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Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows
As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem…
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IBM Exec Outlines PeopleSoft Deal
At PeopleSoft’s Connect 2004 user conference, CEO Craig Conway claimed that his company and IBM will jointly spend $1 billion in a development alliance to integrate PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with IBM’s WebSphere middleware. John Pallatto, eWEEK.com Enterprise Applications Center editor, interviewed Buell Duncan, IBM’s general manager of ISV and developer relations, about…
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Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs, Security Silence
A growing number of Oracle users are not happy with what they’re getting. Why? The products cost too much. The products are suddenly springing security leaks. DBAs now have a god-awful amount of patches to install, and nobody told them they were coming or what they meant. Technical support has been outsourced and automated, meaning…
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It’s Final: No Wi-Fi In “Grantsdale” Chipset
Intel Corp. has decided not to enable the wireless access-point functionality in its Intel 915/925X “Grantsdale” chipset, a company spokesman confirmed Friday afternoon. Intel decided to phase out the once heavily-touted feature because of the prevalence of low-cost access points available from third parties, spokesman Dan Snyder said. Snyder called the move a business decision,…
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HP Axes Itanium Workstations
Hewlett-Packard Co. is discontinuing its line of Itanium-based workstations, saying demand from its customers is for x86 systems powered by processors with 64-bit extensions. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is discontinuing its one-way zx2000 and two-way zx6000 workstations, which were introduced in May 2003 and run on Intel Corp.’s Itanium 2 64-bit processors. HP will…
