1. PRODUCT PREVIEWS.
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COMPUTERS , *HIGH technology industries , *COMPUTER industry , *INFORMATION technology , *COMPUTER input-output equipment , *PERSONAL computers , *IBM computers - Abstract
This section previews the latest products in the computer industry in the U.S. as of January 31, 2005. IBM Corp. rolled out a low-end, Power5-based 64-bit eServer OpenPower Model 710 that supports Linux distributions by both Red Hat and Novell. The server can be purchased with the company's virtualization and micropartitioning software. Along with the new handware, IBM also announced OpenPower Consolidation Express software that is intended to allow midsize users to streamline their overall information technology infrastructure. The company also announced that SAP products have been certified to run on the Model 710 and, later this quarter, Sybase products will also be certified as well for that machine. The 710 has an entry level price of $3,449. StorageTek has introduced Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 to help customers address long-term storage issues and preserve archival data. It is designed to prevent the alteration or deletion of data for as long as a business deems necessary. The product costs $74,000 for a 2.3TB system. Infragistics released TestAdvantage, which provides automated regression testing of the presentation layer or user interface Windows Forms applications built on the .Net platform.
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- 2005