October 1997
Week ending 31
October, 1997
- Digital, Intel settle score
- A brief announcement on the
settlement, plus links to 4 other pages with background
material, details of the agreement, speculation on its
ramifications, plus results of a non-scientific poll. Warning:
C|Net is partially owned by Intel.
- Intel And Digital Settle Patent Suit
- A more objective description of the
settlement.
- DIGITAL and Intel reach settlement
- The press release plus associated
information from Digital.
- Digital And Intel Announce Long Term
Agreement To Expand Relationship; Move To Settle
Litigation
- Intel's press release (looks
identical to Digital's, without the additional background
info.)
- Intel's Digital Deal Raises Questions
- Some people still don't get it --
this article questions the future of the existing
foundries under the assumption that now that Intel is
making Alpha chips, there's no room for anyone else. Just
because Intel's had a monopoly over their own chips for
too many years, they presume that this is the way things need
to be!
- Portasoft takes wraps off domain-name
server app
- New DNS available in unlimited and
"lite" versions.
- DECset Clients for CMS and MMS V1.3
- Digital CASE tools for integration
in an OpenVMS environment.
- DIGITAL ACMSxp V3.1 for Windows NT
Systems with Microsoft DTC Support
- New release now supports
Microsoft's Distributed Transaction Coordinator.
- Announcing Affinity for DIGITAL OpenVMS
Wave 5
- Wave 5 of the program to provide
interoperability and compatibility between OpenVMS and
Windows NT.
- Dynasty
Technologies Inc.announces version 3.5 of the DYNASTY
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT™
- RAD tools for developing Internet
based applications, including complete CORBA and Java
support.
- Red Brick Ships Red Brick Warehouse 5.0
For Digital AlphaServer Systems Running Windows NT
- Relational data warehousing
technology gets a performance boost.
- D2K extends data support
- Tapestry 2.0 updated with new
management capabilities and support for more data sources
and data targets.
- Aspen Systems releases 533 MHz
workstation for $1,995 (US)
- The first of the 21164PC based
systems hit the street for under $2K!
- DIGITAL AlphaServer 800 Systems --
Product Line Enhanced
- CPU upgrades available up to 500
MHz, memory up to 2 GBytes, and availability of UltraSCSI
drives.
- DIGITAL AlphaServer 1200 System
- The new low-end SMP Alpha system
from Digital.
- DIGITAL AlphaServer 4100/4000 5/533
Systems with UltraSCSI Support
- Multiple CPU's up to 533 MHz with 4
MBytes cache, 8 GBytes RAM, and UltraSCSI support now
available.
- DIGITAL AlphaServer 8200 and 8400
Enterprise Windows NT
- Does the ability to run NT on up to
8 625 MHz Alpha processors with up to 8 GBytes of RAM
sound appealing? If you like that, how would you like to
cluster 2 of these systems together? Need 48 PCI slots
per system? Or would you like to be able to go to 14
processors per box when NT 5.0 comes out? Too many
questions? Here's your answer.
You may now comfortably say that NT is not
scalable.
But only on Intel boxes.
- DIGITAL Database Web Connector
- High-performance direct database
access to a variety of databases including non-ODBC data
sources.
- DIGITAL OpenVMS Management Tools V3.0 for
Windows NT
- The NT-based OpenVMS Management
Tools get new security features.
- DIGITAL Visual Fortran V5.0 Professional
Edition
- Version 5 Professional Edition
provides an Alpha native option.
- Corel Corporation Announces Windows NT®
Alpha Support for CorelDRAW 8™
- Yet another bombshell further
entrenching Alpha in the desktop publishing and graphics
arena.
- Digital Equipment Will Run NT And OpenVMS
Concurrently
- Back in 1992, Digital announced
that the Alpha was not limited to a single set of PAL
code active in a processor, but said "Who'll ever
need this?" Time changes all things...
- Monster Microprocessors On The Way
- Preliminary information on
microprocessor announcements at the ISSCC coming up in
February.
- Samsung Breaks Chip Speed Record: 700-MHz
- Samsung unveils 700-MHz chip
- In a coup de marketing,
Samsung pulled a little prestidigitation -- while
everyone was looking at Digital and Intel, Samsung
surprises the world with the future style of Alpha
processor announcements where news doesn't come from
Digital, but from the foundries. This article describes a
new 21264a processor that should be available in 1998.
- Week ending 24 October, 1997
- Carrera Computers Plays Key Role in
-Casper- Production
- ISG Supports Microsoft's Universal Data
Access Strategy
- Sources say Intel, Digital are near
settlement of Alpha dispute
- Intel, Digital court date postponed
- Digital Discounts Alpha Report,
Mitsubishi Says
- Intel, Digital settlement could mean
64-bit convergence
- InQuest Research Paper: Visual Computing
Alpha vs. Pentium II
- Intel Settling with Digital, Fortifies
Grip on Chip Industry
- Deal Frees Intel's Future
- Digital servers due next week
- New Alphas pump up NT
- Digital AlphaServer, Prioris pick up the
pace
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- Week ending 17 October, 1997
- New Application Support, Ease Of
Use Highlight Enhanced Digital FX!32 Software, v1.2 available!
- Bentley Expands TriForma Architectural
Modeling Line
- Bentley Adds Java-based Redlining to
ModelServer Publisher
- Digital Equipment Corporation Reports Net
Income Of $25 Million For First Quarter
- DIGITAL OpenVMS Mail Integration Tools
V1.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT
- DIGITAL Tape Interchange System V2.0 for
Windows NT
- Netscape Messaging Server V3.01 for
DIGITAL UNIX and Windows NT Alpha Systems
- Netscape Navigator V4.0
- Who, Me? Want Alpha? No Way
- Digital presses forward on X86, Alpha
fronts
- Trends Online- AMD's CPU Surprise
(10-14-97)
- New Alphas pump up NT
- Digital Tries to Turn the Tide
- DEC-Intel talks may bite users in future
- AMD hints at partnership with Digital
- Alpha inside
-
- Week ending 10 October, 1997
- Digital Jumps On Alpha Sale
Report
- Report- Digital to license- not
sell- Alpha
- Intel, Digital seek to resolve
patent battle
- Digital says it's committed to
Alpha
-
- Interview with Bob Palmer of Digital
Equipment Corporation,
By Eric Nee, June 01, 1996
- File Transfer Spooler for Open Systems
- DIGITAL AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 5/625
Systems, EV6 Upgrades, AlphaServer 8200 5/440 Systems
Repriced
- Week ending 3 October, 1997
- Transarc
to offer transaction processing for NT
- A
Slightly Faster Alpha, Windows Sources reviews 600
MHz Enorex Ultra
- More
MHz, More Power, Windows Sources reviews 600 MHz
Polywell
- Are
600 MHz Worth the Money? Windows Sources benchmarks
- Latest
Chariot® Release Expands Features for Performance
Management Across Enterprise Networks
- TIBCO
Unveils Electric Power Trading System for Deregulated
Energy Contracts, Futures
- MetaInfo(R)
Announces Beta Release of Sendmail Version 2.5 - New
Version Enhanced With Spam Blocking
- MetaInfo(R)
Announces Beta Release of ListServer 'Hands-Off'
Administration for Hosting Hundreds of Email List
- MetaInfo(R)
Announces Beta Release of AutoResponder
- Gentia
Announces Support For Digital AlphaServer Systems Running
Windows NT
- Datalogics
Announces DL Pager Available for Windows and Alpha NT
Platforms
- Lotus
rolls out messaging upgrades
- New
Application Support, Ease of Use Highlight Enhanced
DIGITAL Fx!32 Software
- Samsung
to put Alpha chips in workstations, servers
- Alpha
Systems Lead Performance Parade at Seybold-Sf '97
Publishing Show
- Quark and
DIGITAL Form Partnership to Serve Publishing Industry
- Digital,
Quark ink deal targeting publishing market
- Mitel
beats MediaPath to CTI -- Software-based telecom server
aimed at small-office market
- Ipswitch
Provides TCP/IP Monitoring Tool
- Exec
questions Samsung's wisdom
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