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Microsoft Stays Pricing Course
By announcing plans to maintain its current per-processor server software licensing, Microsoft Corp. has pleased customers and, in the process, put serious pressure on competing software developers to do the same. The Redmond, Wash., company announced last week that it will keep licensing products in the Windows Server System family—including SQL Server, BizTalk Server and…
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Cheap Server Bundles Bring Flexibility to SMBs
Server makers are continuing to roll out combinations of bundled software and services and scaled-down hardware to give SMBs (small and midsize businesses) the technology they need at a price they can afford. Hewlett-Packard Co. this week is rolling out the newest of its entry-level ProLiant servers, which offer the latest Intel Corp. chips and…
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There’s a New Gaim in Town
As anyone who uses multiple public instant messaging networks knows, running multiple clients on the desktop is too much of a hassle—or was until last month. That’s when the Gaim open-source, multiprotocol IM client project released Version 1.0. Gaim supports not only the three main public IM networks —AOL, Yahoo IM and MSN Messenger—but also…
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AMD’s New Athlon 64: Fast and Pricey
Despite all the recent talk about dual-core processors, it’ll still be a year or more before they’re widely available as desktop CPUs. The march of processor technology comes in many forms: Process size shrinking and materials changing, caches changing, major and minor architectural enhancements, and of course, clock speed increases. The most interesting new CPU…
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Firefox Preview Release Shows Promise
Firefox, the lightweight, open-source Web browser from Mozilla, includes good features in its preview release, but it still needs more work in its installation routines before it can be used in large business deployments. Still, the Mozilla Foundation‘s Firefox boasts several advantages over today’s most popular Web browser, IE (Internet Explorer). First, Firefox is not…
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Solaris 10 Shines in Early Testing
The increasing prominence of freely licensed Linux has prompted many to view operating systems in general as a commodity. With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems hopes to demonstrate that a company’s choice of operating system does matter and that the level of innovation Sun has built into Solaris 10 can deliver benefits across a company’s infrastructure.…
