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...Center will also house a Bioinformatics Lobby where Harvard researchers have access to a “cluster” of 60 high speed Linux computers capable of quickly analyzing gene expression data...
...billion worldwide market for hardware alone. That market includes the servers themselves, which can be as bulky as an IBM mainframe or as slender as a cigarette carton, as well as storage devices. All this iron runs on a variety of software: operating systems and protocols from Unix to Linux and, increasingly, Windows. There are battles over whose protocols are open to adaptation (guess where Windows stands?) and whether there ought to be more standardization. But those conflicts are being resolved by a vast new parallel business called Web services, which encompasses the software and technical expertise that enable companies...
...Dell strategy is to leverage its manufacturing and marketing talent to enable it to deliver the kind of out-of-the-box, high-volume operation that made it dominant in PCs. Its partnerships with database king Oracle and Linux maven Red Hat (Linux is an increasingly popular--and open--alternative to Windows for Intel-based servers) give customers access to powerful options. And in November Dell announced a co-branding arrangement with data-storage king EMC. Although Dell operates mostly at the low end of the market, the idea is to climb steadily toward faster and more expensive machines...
...hedging its bets with an all-out push into what it calls global services, under which it will come to your company, any company, with the hardware and software you need to do business. Want a system that runs on Linux? Windows? Unix? No problem. "IBM comes to the table with a palette of colors and says, 'Paint any picture you want,'" says Dan Kusnetzky, a vice president of IDC. IBM has been slashing prices on its hardware lately. Sun's McNealy claims that IBM's strategy is "to get the hardware in there for free and bury you with...
...guilt that frightfully few want to accept. So in the spirit of hunting down demons, I call upon government to fund immediately a Department of Pathetic Investors and have DOPI look into the methods and motivations of those who eagerly plunked down their savings for the likes of VA Linux and iVillage. I'm confident that the inquiry would produce damning evidence of investors' blatant greed, deceit, blind lust for wealth, sorry ethics and outright fraud. In other words, they were no better behaved than the analysts and bankers...