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All Desktop Computing News - October 2006

Metro Ethernet hardware booms

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 27 October 2006

Metro Ethernet equipment sales are set to triple to $15bn (£8.1bn) between 2005 and 2009, according to analyst Infonetics Research.

Oracle supports Red Hat Linux sales

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 26 October 2006

Oracle has announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it does for its database, middleware and applications products.

Citrix shuns Linux due to 'lack of demand'

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 25 October 2006

Citrix says it has no interest in delivering native Linux support in its products, and that it will continue to rely on the Windows platform.

Google woos publishers with customised search engine

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 24 October 2006

Google has launched a customisable search engine that publishers can put on their own websites.

Google buys YouTube

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 10 October 2006

Search engine giant Google is to buy video sharing start-up YouTube in a $1.65bn (£0.88bn) deal.

Itanium poses the 64-bit question

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Author: Arif Mohamed
Date: 10 October 2006

Itanium 2 offers virtualisation, memory error-checking, partitioning, resilience and scalability. So are you ready to make the step up to 64-bit computing?

Apple stock options inquiry claims board victim

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 05 October 2006

Apple’s former chief financial officer has resigned from the board after an internal investigation by the company into stock option awards.

Enterprise-class disk array specifications

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Date: 05 October 2006

Key specifications for a cross-section of enterprise-class disk array systems.

Technology news in brief

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Date: 03 October 2006

Short takes on this week's technology news

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