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February 28, 2006
Managed service market study released
Internet marketing firm Insight Research announces today it has published its new market study, which predicts that the US managed services market will increase at a compounded rate of about 22 percent over the next five years.

February 24, 2006
Is the global server market healthy?
According to IDC's Server Tracker Research, last year, the global server market was pegged at $14.5 billion in the fourth quarter. These numbers represent a 0.2 percent decline when compared to 2004. This is the first such decrease in revenue since the first quarter of 2003. The was only one sector of the industry that is still increasing and thats low-cost (read: budget) servers, which grew 7.3 percent year-over-year. Midrange enterprise servers declined 11.5 percent over the same period and high-end enterprise servers declined 1.7 percent.

February 16, 2006
New research says Windows more expensive than Linux
A recent survey conducted in I.T. organizations reveals that recent developments in the Linux operating system have actually made its management easier and reduced the overall cost associated with running the popular open-source software and its related systems, this despite all the fanfare made by Microsoft in the past year.

February 16, 2006
Sun launches its Java Platform Standard Edition 6
Sun says the release, code-named Project Mustang, is the product of open review and collaboration between Sun engineers and hundreds of developers.

February 7, 2006
IBM's new Power6 server CPU will run at 4 Ghz
IBM said today its upcoming Power6 server CPU chips will run at very fast speeds. The new Power6 microprocessors are also designed to run cooler, while saving energy at the same time. For many years, microprocessor manufacturers have improved computer performance by shrinking the size of transistors, squeezing more of them into smaller spaces and increasing the speed at which they process instructions.

February 2, 2006
IX-Europe hosts GlobeeCom equipment
Online software developer GlobeeCom International announces today that as part of its intercontinental networking and hosting strategy, it will host its equipment at IX-Europe's Geneva location. GlobeeCom says that it is essential that the company choose recognized and reliable partners.