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CA: It’s Time to Join the Linux Generation
NEW YORK—First we had the PC generation. Then the Internet generation. And now we’re in the midst of the Linux generation. And it’s not too soon too join. That was the message of Computer Associates International Inc.’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect Sam Greenblatt, who delivered the LinuxWorld keynote here Thursday morning. “Linux is…
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Microdrives Make Headway
Increasing power and falling prices are not just computing trends, they’re a way of life for the industry. Not every tech sector rides the waves of these continuing trends at once, though. Judging from recent announcements, the microdrive’s turn atop the crest has come. Several miniscule but high-capacity drives from different manufacturers have been produced…
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Sun Lays Out Further Linux Support
Sun Microsystems Inc. is using LinuxWorld to highlight its plans this year to expand its support for the open-source operating system in its Java Enterprise System and across its Java development tools. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday previewed its plans to add Linux support by the middle of 2004 to the Java Enterprise…
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Xen and X#: One and the Same
After news broke more than a year ago regarding Microsoft’s plans to develop an XML programming language, company officials abruptly stopped talking about the so-called X# language. Some claimed Microsoft had killed the language. Others said Microsoft had temporarily shelved it. It turns out that X# is alive and well – and is now going…
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Hon Hai’s Foxconn Arm To Enter Motherboard Mart
Foxconn Inc., also known as Hon Hai Precision Co. Ltd., said this week that it will enter the motherboard market with its own branded products, competing to some extent with its own customers. Hon Hai, a $10 billion firm and Taiwan’s largest private manufacturer, shopped approximately 26 million motherboards last year to its customers, which…
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Switch, Software Upgrades Take Aim at Enterprise Video
The push is on to make IP-based video more common place within the walls of the enterprise. In two separate announcements on Tuesday, communications vendors offered new approaches for enabling more real-time video and presentation broadcasts. CoSine Communications Inc. announced an update to its switch platform for carriers and services providers that will allow them…
