David Needle

Unix customers gave a big thumbs up to IBM and Sun Microsystems in the latest survey results by Gabriel Consulting Group. The research firm’s 4th Quarter Unix Vendor Preference Survey queried 277 enterprise Unix customers about their experience with and perceptions of the three major Unix systems suppliers: HP, IBM and Sun. IBM retained the […]

Sometimes it’s hard to be easy. IBM will spend $100 million over next five years to simplify its System z mainframes. IBM has revitalized its mainframe business in recent years, but the company is concerned that the big system’s complexity could be a barrier to winning new business. “We think we have the most sophisticated […]

Intel never sounded quite so bullish when it was promising to recapture the performance crown as it did Monday, when it proclaimed to have done just that. With the release of Woodcrest, the competition between Intel and AMD is again heating up, and new servers are being released in spades. As expected, the chip vendor […]

Dell announced that it will use AMD chips in its high-end servers. The news, which came in the company’s quarterly earnings statement yesterday, marks the first time Dell will use AMD chips. The vendor will break from its all-Intel past and ship AMD-based multi-processor servers by the end of the year. Dell is hardly backing […]

Summer slowdown? Don’t tell the folks at Intel. The chip giant has several announcements planned for the next ten days, internetnews.com learned Monday. Processor news, manufacturing update, and emerging markets — the chip maker plans to make several announcements in the next 10 days. Details are sketchy, but expect to hear news in the coming […]