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Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer for the U.S. government that will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s upcoming 64-bit Opteron processor. Seattle-based Cray is building the supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energys Sandia National Laboratories as part of a $90 million agreement. The deal marks the first system-design win for the Opteron, which will […]

Tech Council Rates Legislators U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., And Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are among the most tech-friendly members of Congress. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is not. So says a report released last week by the Industry Information Technology Council, which reviewed the voting records of all members of Congress on legislation important to the […]

Copier and printer giant Xerox Corp. is climbing out from under the microscope of financial scrutiny with a clear focus on the future and growth. With its April settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its June restatement of revenues, which resulted in a revenue shortfall of about $1.4 billion, behind it, Xerox is […]

Tom Siebel, CEO of Siebel Systems Inc., is clearly bothered by the health of the tech sector and the downturn in IT spending. Now hes predicting a huge consolidation in the industry, and he said the number of influential companies can be counted on one or two hands. This hasnt constrained the level of energy […]

Apparently unconcerned with the symbolism, the Linux community is marching toward its self-imposed Oct. 31 feature-freeze date for the newest operating system kernel. While what will be Version 2.6 has many laudable improvements, theres still plenty of post-Halloween maturation needed so that Linux stops frightening end users—and doesnt appear to be masquerading as an enterprise-ready […]

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With larger storage companies aiming their management software at the high end, smaller vendors and startups are rolling out products targeted at the midmarket. Several of those products will be unveiled this week at the Storage Networking World show in Orlando, Fla., with AppIQ Inc., Astrum Software Corp. and Candera Inc. among those announcing offerings. […]

Wyse Technology Inc., which has made its name selling thin clients, today will announce a strategy to expand its business beyond that niche by offering new software, services and products, including wireless handheld devices that will operate much like a Tablet PC. The products and services themselves will be unveiled at the Citrix IForum 2002 […]

High-end storage leader EMC Corp. is “not closing any doors” to expanding partner Dell Computer Corp.s manufacturing rights beyond EMCs midrange CX200 product, EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci said Monday. In early 2003, Dell, of Round Rock, Texas, will begin manufacturing the CX200, considered by Hopkinton, Mass.s EMC to be a bare-bones version of […]

Despite a nearly 5 percent drop in sales over the past year, Hewlett-Packard Co. remained the worlds largest server vendor, based on units shipped, but rival Dell Computer Corp. continued to close the gap, posting an 18 percent increase in sales, according to a study released Monday by Gartner Dataquest. Overall, U.S. server sales rose […]

Its been exactly a year since Microsoft launched Windows XP. So, whats the operating system kingpin doing for an encore? Microsoft says its all Longhorn, all the time. Platforms Group VP Jim Allchin and others on the Windows team say that Microsoft already is well on its way toward developing this next major version of […]

Storage vendors are readying new hardware and software products designed to help users consolidate infrastructures and simplify storage management. At the Storage Networking World show in Orlando, Fla., next week, IBM and Intel Corp. will each announce storage hardware that focuses on array management and server components, respectively. Also at the show, BMC Software Inc. […]