China Martens writing for IDG News Service reported (9/27/05):
Dell's PowerEdge 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers, its PowerEdge 1855 blade server, and its Precision 470 and 670 workstations will ship in the first half of October with dual-core Intel Corp. Xeon chips instead of single-core processors, according to Neil Hand, vice president of worldwide marketing in Dell's Products Group.
The complete article here at Computerworld.
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Victoria Murphy wrote a very interesting article for Forbes (9/13/05). Some snips and then a link to the complete article:
The Xbox game console is hot, but its division has lost $4 billion in four years and isn't yet in the black.
Some current and former employees describe a stultifying world of 14-hour strategy sessions, endless business reviews and a preoccupation with PowerPoint slides; of laborious job evaluations, hundreds of e-mails a day and infighting among divisions so fierce that it hobbles design and delays product releases.
"Microsoft has become what it used to mock," says Gabe Newell, a developer on the first three versions of Windows. At late-night rounds of poker with "Bill and Steve" in the mid-1980s, he says, "we laughed at IBM. They had all this process for monitoring productivity, and yet we knew they had spectacularly bad productivity. That's Microsoft now."
Read the complete article at Forbes.com here.
Hat tip to Joe for sending me the links, oh so long ago . . .
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