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Lindows Changes Name in Several Countries
When a Netherlands court ordered a preliminary injunction against desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. and its resellers “to cease and desist from the infringement of … the WINDOWS trademark … by using the signs “Lindows”, “Lindows.com” and/or “LindowsOS,” it seems Lindows would have to close up shop in the Netherlands and other European countries, which…
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Microsoft Releases Virtual Server Beta
Microsoft Corp. has released the first beta for its Virtual Server 2004 to a select group of customers and expects the product to be generally available in the first half of this year. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., in February acquired the Virtual Machine assets of Connectix Corp., a privately held company in San Mateo, Calif.,…
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Agilysys Acquires Inter-American Data, Inc.
Cleveland, OH–Enterprise solutions provider Agilysys, Inc., has acquired “substantially all of the assets” of Inter-American Data, Inc., (IAD) for $36.5 million in cash, the company announced today. IAD provides software and services, designed to run on IBM platforms, to hotel casinos and major resorts in the United States. “The acquisition of IAD is an excellent…
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Intel Exec Runs Down New Itanium Roadmap
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. on Wednesday presented a broad overview of its enterprise processor roadmap here at the Intel Developer Forum. The company’s forthcoming lineup featured a slew of new code names for the 64-bit Itanium processor. Mike Fister, vice president and general manager of Intel’s enterprise group appeared made a special effort to detail Intel’s…
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IBM Rolls Out Eclipse-Based Autonomic Tools
IBM Corp. has released a set of tools, based on the Eclipse open-source development platform, aimed at helping developers build autonomic features into their applications. David Bartlett, director of autonomic computing at IBM in Hawthorne, N.Y., said the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit features tools, usage scenarios and components and is built to work with the…
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Dell Offering InfiniBand Capabilities
Dell Inc. is bringing InfiniBand capabilities to its high-performance computing cluster configurations via technology from Topspin Communications Inc. The addition of InfiniBand switches is a continuation of Dell’s drive to offer industry-standard technology to its customers, said Victor Mashayekhi, development manager for Dell’s HPC initiatives. “[InfiniBand] gives us that opportunity to give customers a standardized…
