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| DoveBid | 7th in a series of Major
Dot-Com Exchange Auctions Editor's notes:- September 14, 2001 - I came across the 6th auction from DoveBid too late to feature yesterday's liquidation of assets of HAL Computer Systems (Fujitsu's earlier failed attempt to take Sun on head to head in the SPARC workstation market). Looking ahead to September 20, 2001, DoveBid will be running their next auction from Eatontown, NJ and via webcast, selling assets from from Imix.com, Prism, & Microcast. Recycling Sun servers and Cisco routers from failed dot-coms is a good business apparently, DoveBid reported 500% year on year growth in Q1 this year. When the trickle of new and almost unused products from the failed dot-coms dries out, there will be a sigh of relief from most Sun resellers who still have to compete with all that churned around product during a recession which is difficult enough already. ...DoveBid profile |
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| Morse | Morse expands European
presence with Spanish acquisition London - September 10 2001 - Morse plc has acquired a 51% share holding in Spanish IT reseller Integración de Sistemas Abiertos SA for a cash consideration of Pta 476.1million (US$ 2.5 million). This acquisition continues Morse's strategy of growing its continental European presence. ISASA is headquartered in Barcelona, with an office in Madrid. It was established in 1990, employs 47 people and operates in markets such as finance, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. Commenting on the transaction, Duncan McIntyre, Chief Executive of Morse said: "We remain committed to our strategy to expand our presence in continental Europe and, based on the successful roll-out of our UK model in France and Germany, we are confident that this can be successfully applied in Spain as well as other geographies in the future." Mark Byatt, marketing director of Morse, said: "Despite the current economic situation, we are determined to continue to grow our business both organically and through acquisition." ...Morse profile | |||||||
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The Wall Street Transcript
Interviews Grahame Rance, President and CEO of SBS Technologies September 10, 2001 - Editor's note - SBS Technologies has been a confusing company to follow in recent years, because they acquired a lot of other companies, including Bit-3, and they've only recently merged all the products from all the companies into one new coherent website. SBS Technologies make a lot of interface and adapter cards for the Sun platform, ranging from bus converters to fibre-channel adapters. This recent press release from the company links to a pdf interview with their new President and CEO, in which the company history and customer base are described in some detail. It's a useful way to catch up with what's been happening in this fast growing company. ...SBS Technologies profile | |||||||
| SGI | SGI Announces Clustered
Filesystem With Support for Solaris MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 10, 2001 - SGI today announced SGITM CXFSTM Version 2.0 -- the world's most scalable, journaled clustered filesystem -- with extended capabilities to support the Solaris operating system. SGI CXFS is a clustered solution that provides a single filesystem accessible on a heterogeneous SAN from multiple hosts, including IRIX®, Linux®, Windows NT®, Windows® 2000 and now Solaris. With this new capability, SGI IRIX OS-based customers can seamlessly share data with Solaris OS-based systems in real time, thereby increasing productivity and reducing costs. Built on the high-performance SGITM XFSTM filesystem and the next-generation SGITM XVM volume manager, CXFS enables multiple computers direct access to a shared filesystem, which means all systems in a CXFS environment have access to the same file at the same time at local or near-local speeds. SGI CXFS is supported on all SGI IRIX OS-based systems. Entry price for CXFS is $2,500 (U.S. list), and the solution is capable of scaling up to 64 systems, each with up to 512 processors. CXFS for Solaris will be available the first quarter of 2002. ...SGI profile See also:- SAN | |||||||
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