AMD will soon begin selling its low-power, quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors.
Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips.
New server technologies, such as multicore processors and virtualisation, have led IBM to begin radically revamping its server software pricing method.
Although Intel beat AMD to the desktop dual-core market last Monday in the US, AMD has one-upped its rival and released dual-core CPUs for the server.
Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator continues to prefer Apple's old PowerPC architecture for his primary desktop machine.
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This is a good choice for compute-intensive applications, but the System x3455's restricted storage and availability options limit its use when it comes to general hosting duties.
Acer has taken standard Intel OEM components to put together a highly configurable and very scalable 1U server, capable of handling a variety of tasks. It's more than a match for similar products from the big-name vendors.
It can handle a wide range of backend business applications, but HP's Proliant ML370 G5 is over-specified for organisations with more modest requirements.
With computing power to burn, the PowerEdge 1950 is ideal where high performance is required, such as clustering and Web front-end duties. However, the ramped format does make life more difficult when it comes to database hosting and other backend deployments.
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