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Server battle rages

IBM and SGI release new lines, while Sun steps up the fight over the future of server architecture.

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IBM and SGI release new lines, while Sun steps up the fight over the future of server architecture.

"You're really caught in a bind how much value you can add to the NT operating system."

- Jan Silverman, SGI executive

 


SGI counts on Linux for new servers
Workstation maker SGI releases its first Intel-based server computers with both Microsoft Windows NT and Linux operating systems, but Linux is getting top billing in the long run.

Sun urges August deadline in server wars
Sun Microsystems is urging that the negotiations between two high-profile camps attempting to define the next internal architecture for server systems be finished by August.

IBM targets servers for the Domino effect
Big Blue is making new server computers focused exclusively on Lotus Domino software, which companies are using in droves.