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Serial
Attached SCSI
SCSI is an acronym for Small Computer Systems Interconnect.
It is indeed ironic that this attribute (small) hasn’t
been applied to SCSI in the true sense for more than a decade.
In fact, this protocol—originally designed for disks
attached to stand-alone workstations—now provides data
to the biggest machines in large enterprises.
Beyond
CRM...
For a technology that was supposed to make all those niggling
customer interaction problems fade away, India Inc’s
CRM and Business Intelligence (BI) deployments have been a
mixed bag. The best part is that it isn’t the technology
which is at fault; it’s the processes that undermine
these software deployments. Consider the following scenario.
Novell
ships desktop Linux for enterprises
“In recent years, the IT industry has been asking when
Linux will be ready to take on the desktop,” said Jack
Messman, Novell chairman and CEO. “Novell is focusing
its enterprise desktop efforts on Linux deployments where
users can gain the most benefit. Novell Linux Desktop is not
about the wholesale replacement of your Windows systems, but
rather about identifying where and when an open source desktop
can be a sensible, cost-effective alternative. In our pragmatic
view, the time is now ripe for specific desktop users to reap
the benefits of open source.”
Red
Hat launches Fedora 3
Red Hat India has announced the third release of Fedora—Fedora
Core 3. This OS supports five Indian languages, including
Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil. Fedora is a Red
Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project.
3Com
announces terabit switching solutions
3Com has announced its entry into the terabit switching solutions
market with the launch of the 3Com Switch 8800 family of terabit
switches. The 8800 series anchors the company’s broad
LAN switch product portfolio.
Sun’s
Solaris 10 ready to roll
Senior executives from Sun Microsystems will take the stage
on Monday at the company’s last quarterly Network Computing
event at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose to finally
unveil the Solaris 10 operating system, which is scheduled
to ship by the end of January 2005.
A
world first from ASUS
ASUSTeK Computer Inc., one of the leaders in the motherboard
market, has launched the A8N-SLI Deluxe, the first AMD-based
motherboard that provides support for SLI (Scalable Link Interface)
to enable simultaneous operation of two PCI Express graphics
cards.
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