========================================================= ----- eWEEK.com UTILITY COMPUTING UPDATE ------ ========================================================= November 8, 2004
========================================================= Sponsored by Dell Small Business FREE double memory on select Dell (TM) systems! http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149463-1 ========================================================= ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Salesforce.com Customers Embrace On-Demand Model 2. Analysis: Is IBM the Grid King in Financial Services? 3. News: IBM's Database VP: Our Grid Scales Better 4. Opinion: Creating Ecosystems in New On-Demand Models 5. News: High-Performance Computing Wares Come in Clusters 6. News: Necessity Drives Corporate Utility Computing Pioneers Visit eWEEK.com's Utility Computing Topic Center http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149466-1 ========================================================= Utility Computing Update ========================================================= 1. News: Salesforce.com Customers Embrace On-Demand Model With the fervor of converts, Salesforce.com users say they are convinced that using a hosted application service provides significant cost savings and management benefits over trying to develop or support important business applications in-house. Read more. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149469-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. Analysis: Is IBM the Grid King in Financial Services? Oracle Database 10g be damned. IBM has been doing grid for longer than Oracle, better than Oracle and for cheaper than Oracle, its database executives want us to know. What else did they say? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149472-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: IBM's Database VP: Our Grid Scales Better Sure, says IBM's database guru, Oracle is talking a good game on grid computing with Oracle Database 10g, but IBM's still pummeling its biggest database competitor in terms of price and in terms of how many nodes its technology has scaled to in production environments. Do you agree? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149475-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Opinion: Creating Ecosystems in New On-Demand Models As business computing moves toward pay-as-you-go and SOA models, enterprises may find themselves locked in with a single service provider who combines products from any number of players. Read David Chernicoff's column. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149478-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: High-Performance Computing Wares Come in Clusters Major hardware manufacturers are readying performance, clustering and interconnect offerings aimed at the supercomputing space but drawing the attention of enterprise IT. Read the story. IT. Read the story. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149481-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: Necessity Drives Corporate Utility Computing Pioneers Necessity, practicality and hard-nosed business principles are defining utility computing for the pioneering organizations that are actually delivering computing capacity on demand to operating units. Read the story. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1714966,00.asp ========================================================= Tech Jobs http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149484-1 ========================================================= Ziff Davis Channel Zone http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149487-1 ========================================================= DevSource http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149490-1 ========================================================= eNewsletter Information ========================================================= You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.eweek.com/unsubscribe_newsletter/0,4223,,00.asp?n=80&type=u&[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your HTML/text preferences, change your e-mail address or subscribe to other eNewsletters from Ziff Davis Media, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149493-1 ========================================================= eWEEK Magazine Information ========================================================= To apply for a free subscription to eWEEK, please go to http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149496-1 For help with your print subscription to eWEEK, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1350-15-65-20859-149499-1 Copyright (c) 2004 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Media Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016