Under the terms of the deal, NEC will supply HP with
its new “AzusA” server, a machine based on 16 Intel
Itanium processors, which HP will then resell under its
own name as part of the HP9000 series of servers.
For its part HP has committed to developing and
supplying its Unix operating system, HP-UX, for the
IA-64 platform. The two companies also agreed to
collaborate on enhancing HP-UX for the AzusA
server, from IDG News Service on NetworkWorldFusion News

use Perl announces, ActiveState has released PerlDevKit 2.0 and
ActivePerl Build 618, based on perl 5.6.

PI-Business reports that, a day after announcing that it was chopping its work force by nearly a third, Freeinternet.com released yet another piece of bad news.

Sales of semiconductors, the tiny circuits that control devices
ranging from computers to mobile phones to car brakes, rose to
$18.2bn from the $11.9bn of August 1999, the Semiconductor
Industry Association (SIA) said Tuesday. From a report at ZDCOUK.

Recently, staff members have received pay raises as large as 60%, reports Bloomberg.com.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hosted a
company-wide “communications meeting” from Apple’s
Californian headquarters on Friday morning that was
simultaneously broadcast to remote locations. Jobs reportedly told
employees that the company plans no layoffs — a hiring freeze is in
effect, Jobs said, with a few exceptions. From a report at ZDCOUK.

Oracle chairman and chief executive officer Larry Ellison celebrated the release of his company’s next generation 9i database Tuesday by issuing a $US1 million challenge based on the supposed strength of the new technology. From PCWorld.com.

PCWorld.com reports that Italian police have arrested 21 people accused of participating in a massive online banking fraud that could have cost the Sicilian regional government more than 1 trillion lire ($US465 million).

CNET.com says the company is redesigning the website to go along with the third preview release of its long-delayed browser software.

Linux.com published an article written by Brian Richardson in which he says, “When you have a ‘hardware problem’ that goes away when you change the software, it’s
not really a ‘hardware problem.'”