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The Long Goodbye for Lotus Notes
With LotusSphere barely two weeks away, it’s time once again to disinter IBM’s late great Lotus Notes. Already, blogs are heating up with the latest confirmation: Notes is still dead. Too bad IBM has not gone the route of Microsoft with Windows 98, executing a planned obsolescence masked by Sun’s lawsuit-mandated Java virtual machine-ectomy. Instead,…
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Intel Reports Record Revenue
Intel Corp. reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter on Wednesday, an indication that its sector of the tech economy is back on the growth curve. However, officials said the company has delayed its code-named “Dothan” version of the mobile Pentium processor until the second quarter to make “circuit modifications.” “2003 began with a…
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Taking Tech to Retail
Microsoft has scored some major deployments for its Windows XP Embedded operating system. At the National Retail Federation in New York this week, it announced that RadioShack Corporation will be deploying some 8,000 Windows XP-based point-of-sale (POS) systems in more than 5000 company owned stores. Circuit City Stores Inc., and Meijer Inc. are deploying POS…
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Ellison Steps Back … Or Does He?
Big news on Monday for Oracle followers: Founder, CEO and Chairman Larry Ellison gives up the chairman title and, for the first time since Ray Lane left, appoints a president. Not just one, but two! Uninformed observers might assume that this is the first sign that Ellison, approaching 60, is about to step away completely.…
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Databases Opening Up
Rapid commoditization of databases is sparking momentum for open-source database vendors, such as MySQL AB, among others, to firmly establish notoriety for quicker-paced, less costly alternatives to large-scale database offerings. Experts say developers are showing a growing comfort level toward open-source database tools, primarily due to the proliferation of Linux combined with liberal licensing terms…
