By Practical Technology July, 23 2008
KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their backs on Vista then in KACE’s last survey in November 2007. According to the company press release, “42 percent of them said they would consider deployment of alternative operating systems, such as Mac OS and Linux, in order to avoid a migration to Vista.” 11% of Windows users have already decided to switch rather than ‘upgrade’ to Vista. Of that number, 29% plan to changeover to the Mac, followed by 24% to Red Hat Linux, 21% to Ubuntu Linux, and 15% to SUSE Linux. The remainder plan on switching to another version of Linux.If you thought the release of Vista SP 1 would make business IT professionals think more kindly about Vista, think again. 92 percent of those surveyed said “the release of Vista Service Pack 1 has not changed their plans for Vista deployment.” Indeed, according to the report, “only 2% of participants responded that SP1 had accelerated their Vista adoption plans and 3% reported that SP1 had actually delayed their plans for Vista adoption.”
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
To ARMs! Intel Back In Embedded Chip Game
By Damon Poeter, Jul. 24, 2008
Intel's war on ARM and other RISC-based micro-architectures went from cold to hot Wednesday with the chip giant's release of eight new x86-based "system-on-a-chip" (SoC) processors for the embedded market. Following the so-called CISC vs. RISC battles of the early days of personal computing, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker seemed content to own the bulk of the PC and server markets with its wildly successful Intel architecture (IA), or x86-based microprocessors, leaving the embedded and consumer electronics markets largely to makers of RISC-based chips. But a new age of computing that demands Internet connectivity in all manner of devices has Intel on the warpath again. Intel's agenda now is to place its Internet-friendly x86 chips in a much broader swath of what Intel's Doug Davis said was $10 billion market for embedded silicon.
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Intel's war on ARM and other RISC-based micro-architectures went from cold to hot Wednesday with the chip giant's release of eight new x86-based "system-on-a-chip" (SoC) processors for the embedded market. Following the so-called CISC vs. RISC battles of the early days of personal computing, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker seemed content to own the bulk of the PC and server markets with its wildly successful Intel architecture (IA), or x86-based microprocessors, leaving the embedded and consumer electronics markets largely to makers of RISC-based chips. But a new age of computing that demands Internet connectivity in all manner of devices has Intel on the warpath again. Intel's agenda now is to place its Internet-friendly x86 chips in a much broader swath of what Intel's Doug Davis said was $10 billion market for embedded silicon.
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Voodoo PC Gets Absorbed Totally Into HP
By Shane McGlaun - July 24, 2008
Nearly two years ago in September 2006, HP announced that it purchased gaming PC maker Voodoo for an undisclosed amount of money. Originally, Voodoo remained a separate entity from HP and continued to focus on creating gaming machines for high-end gaming customers. Today HP announced that it is folding the Voodoo brand into its HP line. HP says that it will maintain Voodoo as a brand name. That statement frightens some Voodoo enthusiasts who fear that the Voodoo name will be just that -- a name slapped onto anything HP wants to market for more money to the gaming crowd. PC World quotes HP spokeswoman Ann Finnie saying, “It is just the next step of integration into the business units that deliver Compaq Presario and [HP] Pavilion.” The good part about the folding of Voodoo completely into HP is that the gaming systems would be easier to get at retail locations and with the significantly larger staff of HP systems would be faster to build and deliver.
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Nearly two years ago in September 2006, HP announced that it purchased gaming PC maker Voodoo for an undisclosed amount of money. Originally, Voodoo remained a separate entity from HP and continued to focus on creating gaming machines for high-end gaming customers. Today HP announced that it is folding the Voodoo brand into its HP line. HP says that it will maintain Voodoo as a brand name. That statement frightens some Voodoo enthusiasts who fear that the Voodoo name will be just that -- a name slapped onto anything HP wants to market for more money to the gaming crowd. PC World quotes HP spokeswoman Ann Finnie saying, “It is just the next step of integration into the business units that deliver Compaq Presario and [HP] Pavilion.” The good part about the folding of Voodoo completely into HP is that the gaming systems would be easier to get at retail locations and with the significantly larger staff of HP systems would be faster to build and deliver.
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