Despite the economic slowdown, the appliance server market in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) remains bullish, with revenues expected to hit US$1.81 billion in 2005, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are pushing server sales to new heights, despite the growing adoption of virtualisation technology.
Novell says its Linux business has grown by 243 percent over the last three quarters, and it largely credits its deal with Microsoft.
Microsoft's retirement schedule for Windows NT Server 4.0 shows all sales are to stop in 2003, and support to end in 2005.
Sales of servers using Linux will grow faster than the overall market at least through 2008, when customers will spend US$9.1 billion for machines using the open-source operating system, market researcher IDC forecast on Monday.
It's nigh on impossible to hear a bad word about virtualisation software at the moment, but is it good news for everyone?
Reading the news via the handy (though often-ignored) AvantGo on my Pocket PC recently, I encountered an advertisement for a white paper from Microsoft offering a case study on costs of ownership for Linux versus Windows. This has the potential to be either informative or tragic, I said to myself, as I chose to download a copy.
More than a week has passed since EMC boss Joe Tucci answered some of my questions on virtualisation, and I'm still pondering them.
What do you need to do to get a bunch of Microsoft-obsessed geeks really excited?
The end of the financial year must be nigh -- vendors are rolling out their last minute specials to try and get everyone to spend their last shreds of budget before 30 June rolls around.
Strategic sales of more expensive servers indicates the "Band-Aid approach" of recent years is waning, analyst says.
Big Blue extended its lead in the second quarter of 2003, stealing a sizable slice of the global market for the powerful computers away from Sun Microsystems, a new study shows.
Sales of new and used PCs running the Linux operating system will reach US$10 billion by 2008, market researcher IDC predicted Wednesday.
Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.
Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.
When businesses scaled out their server infrastructure, Dell rode high, but the arrival of virtualisation is hurting its server sales. Despite this, Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the world will need more of its servers and storage in the future.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
The benefits of keeping information centralised and up to date are obvious for all parts of your business. ZDNet Australia looks at software packages designed to help your sales force stay on track.
Intel has described two new technologies for its Itanium family and fleshed out its plans for the processor, as the company tries to build momentum for the high-end server chip.
Microsoft says it will fold its SharePoint business portal software into its Office System product line.
Advanced Micro Devices launches 64-bit chips for servers with both single and multiple processors. It's also looking to fend off Itanium advances from rival Intel.
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