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Colin Barker (born 1939) is a British Marxist writer and historian, a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester and author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, most notably a history of Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.

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EMC and VMware report difficult quarters

Data-storage manufacturer EMC reported a 23 percent drop in quarterly profit on Thursday and warned that the situation would get worse before it got better. A day later, VMware, an EMC company, reported that it was doing better than EMC, but said ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  24 Apr 2009

IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers

IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and other platforms. Apart from the ability to run ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  23 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  Microsoft Corporation

Linux Foundation gives thumbs up to Oracle-Sun

Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin has given a warm welcome to Oracle's purchase of Sun, saying it is "good news" for Linux. The acquisition is good for Linux because business-software leader Oracle is strategically aligned with Linux, as well as a ...

From COLIN BARKER, Silicon.com,  23 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  IBM

Trade group: Oracle-Sun good news for Linux

Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin has given a warm welcome to Oracle's purchase of Sun, saying it is "good news" for Linux. The acquisition is good for Linux because business-software leader Oracle is strategically aligned with Linux, as well as a ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  IBM

AMD offers lower power quad-core Opteron

AMD has unveiled a new low-power variant of the quad-core Shanghai processor, as part of its drive to improve the energy efficiency of the 45nm Opteron chips released last year. The EE processor, launched on Wednesday, consumes 40W of power, against ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: AMD

Iomega taps EMC tech for rack-mount NAS

Iomega has launched a rack-mounted NAS storage unit for small businesses, built using technology developed by its parent company EMC. The Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-200r NAS Rackmount Server, introduced on Thursday, contains four disk-drive bays, a ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  17 Apr 2009

Jericho Forum offers cloud security tips

Corporate IT security group the Jericho Forum has offered security advice for companies that want to adopt cloud computing. While cloud computing offers companies the opportunity to operate much more efficiently and with flexibility, it can open up a ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  17 Apr 2009
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Virgin to migrate customers onto Google Mail

Virgin Media plans to move all its home broadband customers onto the Google Mail platform, the company said on Wednesday. According to the Internet service provider, the Web-mail rollout will extend to all of its 4 million home broadband customers, but ...

From COLIN BARKER, Webware,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Virgin Media,  Tucows Inc.

Virgin Media to shift 20,000 customers onto Gmail

Virgin Media is to move all its home broadband customers onto the Google Mail platform, the company said on Wednesday. According to the internet service provider, the webmail rollout will extend to all of its four million home broadband customers, but ...

From COLIN BARKER, Silicon.com,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Virgin Media,  Google Inc.,  Tucows Inc.

Start-up promises to speed web data access

Start-up Schooner Information Technology has launched two appliances that are intended to significantly speed up data access for websites. The two data-access appliances, introduced on Monday, are both based on one piece of hardware, but are tailored ...

From COLIN BARKER, ZDNet UK,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Tony Lock,  LiveJournal,  Facebook Inc.,  Digg,  Twitter Inc

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