workstations in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07
Round-Up which brought in 15 obese people to use the 'vertical workstations' rather than sitting at their desks. "You're the one for me, fatty," sang Morrissey all the way back in 1992, yet not everybody is quite so welcoming of... [18 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Similarly, during its extended development, Itanium was widely expected to become the dominant processor architecture for servers, workstations, and perhaps even desktops, replacing the ubiquitous x86 architecture to... [06 Nov 2006]
Why IBM won't regret exiting PCs
Comment With 20/20 hindsight, it now seems a no-brainer: Margins on personal computers, workstations and servers were getting thinner every year, and IBM needed to find a place in a high-priced business where the word... [13 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Ignore IT change at your peril
Comment To take one simple example, with bandwidth now relatively plentiful, there are very strong arguments for running software on servers with workstations only providing standardised front ends. But, argues Martin Brampton,... [23 Nov 2004]
Convergence: IPv6 migration - a necessary pain?
Comment Every device on the network - including firewalls, servers, workstations, laptops and IP phones - will need to be upgraded to support IPv6. There are so many reasons why IPv6 is a good thing - from allocating sufficient... [05 Jun 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.03
Comment Sun CEO Scott McNealy wants all 35,000 Sun employees to be prepared to abandon permanent desks in favour of flexible workstations and telecommuting. "Hell is other people. So wrote French existentialist philosopher and... [23 May 2003]
In the spotlight: Sun
Comment Sun made the leap from workstations to servers in the 1980s. The Santa Clara-based server seller has changed its announcement technique so it releases one fusillade of new products each quarter. Sun argues the breadth of... [10 Feb 2003]
Inside Dell: FactFile
Comment Precision workstations Revenues: $18.24bn, $25.27bn, $31.89bn, $31.17bn Net profit: $1.46bn, $1.86bn, $2.31bn, $1.78bn The executives: Michael Dell, chairman and CEO Kevin Rollins, president and COO James T Vanderslice,... [30 Jan 2003]
Intel - the company you don't already know
Comment It loved roadmaps and providing the engines for laptops, PCs, workstations and servers. Is Intel still 'that chips company'? It used to be a fairly straightforward beast. One of the oldest and most successful names in... [12 Sep 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The blue sack
Comment The smartest corporations I ever worked with had a daily regime of backing up all individual PCs and workstations office by office. Network-based storage sounds like a boring business issue. Peter Cochrane takes a very... [15 Aug 2002]
Web services: The difference between Microsoft and Sun
Comment Sun, which makes a good living by selling hardware, must stop thinking about server boxes and workstations and concentrate on software packages. You may now have some idea what web services are all about. [22 May 2002]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 3 - The eBay IPO
Comment But when Bruce Dunlevie and Kevin Harvey, who were standing together by the assistants' workstations, saw Kagle come out of his office, the two extended their arms and bowed silently in his direction, in "We are not worthy! [10 Apr 2002]
Intel Factfile
Comment For workstations/servers: Revenues: $26.3bn, $29.4bn, $33.7bn, $26.5bn Net profit: $6.1bn, $8.1bn, $12.1bn, $3.6bn Key executives: Andy Grove, chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini, president and COO [31 Dec 2001]
IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.
Comment This sounds like a significant gain until you discover that StarOffice was replacing Applix on Unix workstations as well as Windows based software. The view taken by a few Euro-analysts was that confidence in the IT... [13 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.
Comment This sounds like a significant gain until you discover that StarOffice was replacing Applix on Unix workstations as well as Windows based software. The view taken by a few Euro-analysts was that confidence in the IT... [13 Aug 2001]
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