Red Hat Plays 'Love You, Love You Not' with CPUs

by R. Krause ... Red Hat has also announced that it will no longer support Sun Microsystems' Sparc processor, beginning with Version 7, Red Hat's most recent release of Linux. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_12_21_00_1.asp - 8k - 2000-12-21 Summary: Red Hat has announced the release of Alpha Deluxe, its version of Linux for computers based on Compaq s Alpha CPU. At the same time, the company announced it would drop support for Sun s Sparc processor.

IBM Taking on Sun in Web Infrastructure?

by R. Krause ... However, the SPARC hardware has lost a significant part of its performance advantage (at least for transaction processing, as evidenced by the TPC benchmarks ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_05_19_00_1.asp - 9k - 2000-05-19 Summary: IBM has decided to take on Sun in the Internet infrastructure arena. What do they bring to the table? And who will win the war of words?

Lotus Notes R5 ~ A Breath of Fresh Air

by P. Hayes ... Windows NT (Alpha), X. X. AIX 4.3.1, X. HP-UX 11.0, X. Solaris/SPARC 2.6, X. Support Announced for Rev 8. Solaris/Intel 2.6, X. OS/2 Warp Server 4, X. OS/400 V4R2 ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/GroupwareMessaging/2000/03/research_notes/PN_GW_MPH_03_00_1.asp - 23k - 2000-03-20 Summary: Lotus Notes has just surpassed the 50,000,000-installed base mark, giving Microsoft s Exchange server a good run for the money .

IBM s Unix Servers Eclipse Sun

by R. Krause ... Since the processing power "growth curve" for the SPARC architecture seems to be rising slower than that for Intel, Sun might want to spend more time in that ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/03/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_03_31_00_1.asp - 9k - 2000-03-31 Summary: IBM s latest RS/6000 server, the high-end S80, outsold Sun Microsystems E10000 by almost three-to-one in the fourth quarter. Who cares it s the performance and price that may end up burning Sun.