12th May 2007 Archive

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• IBM preps Power6 by putting AIX 5.3 on life support

  Hand holding

  IBM's Power6 push began this week with a tweak to AIX support. In a letter to customers, IBM vowed to support future updates to AIX 5.3 for an additional two years. This appears to be IBM's Power6 concession, since the vendor, according to our sources, will announce Power6 systems this month and ship them in the middle of the …

  Enterprise 12 May 2007, 01:05

• Steve Ballmer may have said something interesting; we couldn’t possibly comment...

  A non-report from the third and final day of Microsoft’s BI conference

  To criticise Microsoft is, of course, to attack not only an easy target but also a popular one. Many people hate the big M for the simple (and undeniable) reason that it is successful. This is a comfortable reason to hate a company because it guarantees an unending supply of hate figures; if/when the big M falls from grace …

  Software & Security 12 May 2007, 04:28