German Government Uses J2EE & Open Source Software

The software used by the German government to handle the results of the Bundestag election... will be written in Java and deploy Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL... The software... will compute preliminary results (which are announced as soon as possible after the polls close), run plausibility checks, and determine the Bundestag membership as well as distribution of seats to the political parties. It will use web clients for entry of voting data, data import, presentation of results, and preparation of printed results. It will be based on a three-level architecture... and deploy Enterprise Java Beans."

Dell Chooses J2EE Server

Dell has chosen BEA WebLogic Server www.bea.com as the company's standard Java platform for application development and deployment. Dell plans to migrate a series of strategic applications... onto BEA WebLogic, including DellServ, an internal tech support app used by more than 7,500 Dell customer service technicians.

Dell is also planning to build new Web services applications... that will be designed to further advance its world-class customer service offerings and help broaden the ...competitive advantages of Dell's direct business model.

2EE Download Hits 2 Million

Java technology achieves yet another milestone. On April 8th they had the two-millionth download of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Software Developer Kit (SDK), proving that the Java platform is one of the most successful industry collaborations ever.

City Sees The Appeal Of Linux

London follows New York's open source adoption. The New York financial community is increasingly adopting Linux to cut costs, and London's banks aren't far behind.

Two of the leading vendors of the open-source operating system have told Computing that the growing popularity of Linux in the US is spreading to the UK.

IBM says it has 10 potential users on each side of the Atlantic. HP says it is talking to seven London

banks, has nine users already in New York, and another 10 contemplating a switch. Some major finance companies have already made the move. Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) recently announced plans to move its mission-critical application infrastructure onto Red Hat Linux, and online trader eTrade is migrating to open-source from its proprietary server platform.

Sherwin-Williams Co. Plan System Upgrade To Linux

No.1 U.S. Paint Makers, Sherwin-Williams Co. announce plans for a system upgrade to Linux. This conversion will cover more than 2,500 stores to Linux within the next year and IBM's Services Division have been hired to complete the project. Deployment of the systems will begin July 02.

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IBM Drills Linux Into Oil Industry

IBM has signed a deal with Landmark Graphics to build Linux supercomputers and PCs for oil and gas companies, the companies will announce Friday.

Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of petroleum industry support company Halliburton, provides software for oil exploration, drilling and production. Under a three-year deal, IBM will cooperate with the company to bring these products to Linux systems. IBM will provide service and support for the products.

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Sage Commits To Linux

IBM has announced an agreement with Sage, a major global supplier of business management software and related products and services to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's), in one of the industry's strongest endorsements of Linux for business critical applications in the SME space.

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Computer Weekly Special Report

The State Of The Linux Nation

Is Linux Ready for The Data Centre

Opinion: Winning The Linux Gamble

UnitedLinux Could Kill Off Unix

Oracle/Linux Combo Beats Unix On Price And Performance

IBM Rolls Out First Net-Based Utility Service For Linux

Web Technology Is Still Cutting Costs

Efficiency and savings are driving online business. The face of ebusiness is changing in the UK, with organisations taking new technology more seriously and identifying real business benefits and cost savings.

Some 60 per cent of UK companies believe online technologies will reduce their costs by up to 10 per cent within two to three years, according to Reality Bites, the second annual ebusiness report from the CBI and KPMG Consulting.

A further 30 per cent anticipate reductions of between 11 and 30 per cent as a result of new technologies.

IBM Announce The New IBM Surepos 300

IBM have announced the new IBM SurePOS 300 that delivers power, flexibility and unprecedented affordability. Now cost-conscious retailers can have a point-of-sale solution they can afford, without giving up power, flexibility or reliability.

• Quality and affordability
  
• Maximum flexibility
  
• Long-term investment protection

The IBM SurePOS 300 is ideal for small- to medium-sized retail operations and value chain stores that want an affordable POS solution that offers a lot of flexibility for store placement and functionality. The small system unit with distributed peripherals, plus the choice of thin-client or thick-client configurations means the IBM SurePOS 300 can be used virtually anyway or anywhere in the store.

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