Oracle Will Focus Sun Servers on High End: Ellison


Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that once his company acquires Sun, he will stay out of the high-volume, low-margin server space currently dominated by HP and Dell. Instead, Oracle will focus Sun’s SPARC/Solaris and Intel-based systems aimed at the high end. At the same time, those systems will be a foundation of Oracle’s converged data center strategy, which will tightly integrate servers, storage and networking using software from Oracle and Sun. Other vendors, including Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM, also offer converged data center solutions.
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New Intel® Core™ Processors Take Center Stage at CESKeynote
by CEO Paul Otellini Will Delve into Technology Trends for the Next Decade

Jan. 7-10, 2010 - (Opening-day Intel Corporation highlights include a "32-nanometer-minute" press conference where Intel will "exercise its Core™," and a keynote by President and CEO Paul Otellini; details below)

2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas Convention Center; Intel booth at Central Hall #7153

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Google hopes to remake programming with Go

Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go.

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Ready, Set, Read: Intel® Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word
Intel News Release

Intel Launches Mobile Handheld Device for People with Reading-Based Disabilities, such as Dyslexia or Low-Vision, or for Those Who are Blind

• The new Intel Reader (reader.intel.com), a mobile handheld device, increases independence for people with reading-based disabilities.
• The size of a paperback book, the Intel Reader converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud to the user.
• The Intel Reader can help the estimated 55 million people in the U.S. who have specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia or vision problems.

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Cisco Inbox Will Integrate E-Mail, Social Networking Tools
Messaging & Collaboration

Cisco told eWEEK it is working on Cisco Inbox, a combination of Cisco WebEx Mail and the company's social networking tools for businesses, including Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Show and Share video and Pulse tagging. Combined with the company's new Intercompany Media Engine, Cisco will have a server-software combo Google, Microsoft and IBM would find tough to compete with. At a time when these vendors are looking to well-rounded solutions, Cisco appears to have an edge -- and it's backed by the network.
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