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Dented Dell picks up AMD chips amid SEC probe
Dell's announcement of a broader relationship with Advanced Micro Devices could not overshadow poor second-quarter results and news of a federal investigation into its accounting. Read more »
Dell tests users' appetite for Linux
Dell has sent out a questionnaire to see if users are interested in desktop Linux, and which version of the open-source operating system they would like to use on Dell hardware. Read more »
Dell bullish about Vista adoption
Businesses will upgrade to Microsoft's Vista in droves as consumers bring their love of the next-generation operating system from home to work, a Dell executive said. Read more »
Dell, HP, Lenovo rev up Linux with driver promise
Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux. Read more »
Dell: Linux growing despite Microsoft patent threats
The PC manufacturer says that Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers. Read more »
Sun Solaris 10 to ship with Dell PowerEdge servers
Sun Microsystems and Dell announced a distribution deal on Wednesday that will see Dell's PowerEdge servers shipped with Sun's Solaris 10 operating system. Read more »
Microsoft Hyper-V 'virtually there' but not
The long wait is almost over for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008 -- it has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage placing it in limbo between beta-stage development and a final release. Read more »
Oracle expands Linux compatibility
The list of hardware compatible with Oracle's Linux distribution continues to grow, with the software maker certifying six new configurations this week. Read more »
Vmware offers performance testing tool
Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. Read more »
Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic
Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software. Read more »
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Building high-capacity backups on a limited budget
When faced with high-priced options from vendors, one IT team decided to develop its own high-speed backup network. Find out how they did it. Read more »
Loading a new storage driver during the Windows Server 2008 install
Learn about Windows Server 2008's new way of passing drivers to the installation program during the install process. Read more »
Remaking my server environment: blade servers, virtualisation, terminal computing
My staff and I will be making some relatively significant changes to the computing environment at Westminster College. I thought I'd use this post to describe what we're doing and why and maybe give you some ideas about your own workings. Read more »
Mac OS X on x86 tested
Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. Read more »
Sun deal to expand portal software
Sun Microsystems has signed a multimillion-dollar deal to boost the wireless abilities of its portal software using products from start-up Aligo, the companies plan to announce next week. Read more »
Is Linux on the move?
CIOs have moved from the sidelines to the playing field in the search for a successor to traditional data centre products. Have they found one in Linux? Read more »
Building the Linux business infrastructure
IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »
Sun on Linux: What, me worry?
Sun Microsystems' Unix has kept on keeping on since 1982, while once-mighty minicomputer makers such as Wang and Data General have been consigned to irrelevance. Read more »
J2ME shortcoming opens door for Microsoft
In the war between the world's two biggest platforms, a weakness in one J2ME specification may be opening a window of opportunity for Microsoft that could have a chilling effect on the heat in Java's brew. Read more »
Open source vs open standards
Customers and government bodies should focus on products with open standards and realise the pitfalls of open source, argues Scott Petty, Dimension Data Australia COO. Read more »
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This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+
-- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »
Apple shipping the Mark Webber of hard drives
-- The hard drives within Apple computers seem to pull mechnical failure and random incidents into play whenever you think things are fine -- just like our man in F1: M. Webber. Read more »
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