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New Compaq SAN Lab to Accelerate Interoperability

Compaq will open a 22,000-square foot facility in Colorado Springs, Colo., that will house the company's most advanced lab for testing and qualifying network storage interoperability.

Microsoft Repeats Lower Court Review Request

For the second time in two months, attorneys for Microsoft have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it ignore the U.S. Justice Department’s push for expediency and allow a lower appeals court to hear its appeal of antitrust violations regarding the Windows PC operating system.

IDC: Unix Market Flat from Q1, Workstation Market Hurt by RAM Shortages

Total branded workstation shipments - Unix and Windows NT - dropped 409,123 units, or 4 percent, in the second quarter, according to industry analysts IDC. The branded Windows NT workstation market fell 7 percent, while the Unix workstation market was up about 3 percent.

IDC: Vast Partnering Opportunity in ASP Market

A new study by industry analyst firm IDC shows enormous opportunity for partnering with ASPs. According to IDC, over 80 percent of ASPs are actively seeking software vendor partners, and a significant number are also seeking service, resale, telecommunication, ISP, and hardware vendor partners.

Microsoft, Mainsoft Port IE to Unix

Mainsoft, a provider of cross-platform solutions for the enterprise, announced that Microsoft has signed an updated contract with the company securing Mainsoft's Professional Services and the right to use MainWin to port Internet Explorer and other technologies to Unix platforms.

CMD Ships New RAID Controller

CMD Technology Debuts Titan 2.0 Firmware Updates

AMD Ships 1.1-GHz Processor

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released its new 1.1 GHz Athlon processor in a new performance PC line. The company also released Athlons in 600 and 700-MHz speeds in a value line of PCs.

Team ASA to Release Print-over-IP Server

Winternals Rolls Out ERD Commander 2000

August 15, 2000

Quadbase's EspressChart 3.0 Enables Java Charting

BizTalk Server 2000 Beta Now Available

Microsoft today announced the public availability of the beta version of BizTalk Server 2000, a member of the .NET Enterprise Server family of products.

Citrix Launches MetaFrame for AIX

Citrix Systems today announced the newest addition to its MetaFrame ASP software products, MetaFrame for the AIX operating system. The new MetaFrame product is being demonstrated at Solutions, the IBM Technical Developer Conference this week in Las Vegas.

Intel Infiniband Coming in 2001

With the release of the 1.0 specification imminent, Intel officials announced that actual server products using the revolutionary Infiniband I/O architecture are expected to be available to the end user by the third quarter of 2001.

AMD Hammers out 64-bit Developer’s Specs

With Itanium getting pushed back like a lousy football team, another 64-bit processor may take center stage. AMD today released developer’s specifications for their upcoming 64-bit processor, codenamed "Sledgehammer."

Microsoft Reorgs Around .NET Initiative

Microsoft this week shuffled its top executives around for the third time in the last 18 months, in a move suggesting it is serious about the .NET initiative.

Infiniband 1.0 Coming in Early Fall

The first version of the much-anticipated Infiniband I/O technology, will be released to the computer industry in the end of September or the beginning of October, according to the co-chairman of the Infiniband Trade Association.

IDC Says Windows, Linux Expected to Grow

A recent IDC report on client operating environments (COEs) and server operating environments (SOEs) says that Windows and Linux will eat bigger pieces of pie on both ends of the wire.

Oracle Uses Linux to Compete with IBM

In recent months, Oracle Corp. has begun a more aggressive move into the Linux community. Today the company announced the availability of its enterprise-level application server for Linux, Oracle Internet application server 8i (Oracle iAS).